Markings would improve junction
Senior reporter Senior reporter Quite apart from the astonishing cost and seemingly pointless alteration undertaken by KCC Highways, I consider a danger has been created.
When travelling into town from Rocky Hill, there are two Hastingsbound lanes. These continue all the way from the traffic lights outside the Broadway Shopping Centre across St Peters Bridge and round into Bishops Way.
Unfortunately the alterations have created a misalignment and unnatural sweep from the traffic lights on St Peter’s Bridge across the junction to Bishops Way. Regularly when in the right-hand Hastings lane wishing to enter Bishops Way I am either cut up or hooted at by motorists in the left-hand Hastings lane wrongly cutting across into the right-hand lane in Bishops Way.
I have written to Roger Wilkin, director of highways at KCC, expressing my concern and suggesting lane guidance lines be painted across the junction, thereby keeping traffic in the correct lane. Robert Payne Old Tovil Road, Maidstone Senior reporter Senior reporter appointment with a psychiatrist is almost impossible.
Come on Maidstone, I despair, and so should we all. Sandra Law Shaftesbury Drive, Maidstone
I have read several items in newspapers criticising the help for mental health. I want to point out my experience.
A few months ago I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and I have nothing but praise for the help and support my wife, Carol, and I have received since receiving this devastating news.
To Bay Tree House (NHS) for diagnoses, treatment and help groups. To Alzheimer’s Society (Charity) for help groups. To Involve Carers (KCC) for the Carers’ Emergency Card and information. To KCC themselves for mobility equipment. To anybody else I have not mentioned (because that’s what Alzheimer’s does to you). I feel I couldn’t have got any better help even if I paid for it. Thanks to all of you. Ken Nicholls Shaftesbury Drive, Maidstone Senior reporter Reporter of our indigenous population being paid to sit on their backsides, unemployed.
Plus, we learn the NHS is so intent on importing cheap labour, 770 top-grade students were turned down for places last year, in favour of foreign doctors. What madness is this?
These foreign doctors and nurses are often more urgently needed in their own countries, but they are preferred here so the NHS can continue the high managerial packages and the colossal waste.
If this country had not shifted so far to the left, we would be building the grammar schools, training the doctors and nurses ourselves, reducing unemployment and stopping undermining the salaries of those already living here. Instead we have the politics of the madhouse.
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad. Phil Granger Alma Road, West Malling