No bin still but what a series of traffic lights

On a recent return trip from Windsor I encountered four-way traffic lights at the junction of Dedworth Road and Oakley

Green Road.

Three roads, four way lights why?

These works were not shown on one network nor the RBWM's own website.

Then along Windsor Road there were traffic lights near the petrol station.

The roadworks on Bad Godesberg Way were still in existence and so were the roadworks on Castle Hill.

Four sets of traffic lights on a short journey – truly amazing!

Now the works on Castle Hill have finished, there are traffic lights on Marlow Road near the Castle Hill roundabout causing tailbacks around the roundabout at peak times.

Not content with that, the council have now erected traffic lights on the Cookham Road near the Cordwallis Road junction.

And this from a council that believes they can regenerate the centre of the town by building The Landing.

If the example of the golf club acquisition is anything to go by they have no chance. Maidenhead Golf Club had to agree to the new deal as they were negotiating under duress – RBWM threatened to issue a Compulsory Purchase Order on the site if they did not agree. A great way to negotiate?

On April 23 I sent a picture of an area at the bottom of High Town Road where a rubbish bin had been removed.

Strangely enough, or perhaps not so strange, the council could not locate the area but they said the bin would be replaced – five months later is there a new bin?

My father had an expression for this incompetence – without being rude it was something to do with organising a party in a brewer y!

MERVYN BUSTON

East Road Maidenhead