More cost for nothing done

LIVING within a few miles from the city centre and visiting many areas around I see little, if any change in the conditions within its borders.

The homeless still beg, litter still lurks, traffic still speeds with additional noisy off-road vehicles adding to the hazards, dog muck is still plentiful – but at last a start to repairing potholes appears to have begun, although most of the identifying white markings have worn away.

Thanks to the Manchester Evening News we are also reminded daily of the atrocities, increasing violence, fraud, drugs and thugs and overall worrying times in our region.

So, with Andy Burnham having millions to spend, together with the escalating costs of councillors and town hall bods, it would appear the hard working taxpayers of Manchester are now paying twice as much for nothing to be done. John Bottomley, Clayton

The closures are to allow surface dressing of the road to take place.

Short sections will be closed between junctions and local diversions signed while the dressing machine is in operation, and the road will be re-opened as soon as it has passed through.

Closure times are for the protection of the public and our workers, but will be kept to a minimum.

I’d like to reassure John and all M.E.N. readers travelling to the match that the road will be open on Monday. Coun Angeliki Stogia, Executive member for the environment, Manchester council