Walk in to town is paved with problems

Your correspondent (Viewpoint, August 4) is quite right to bemoan the absence of proper shops in Maidenhead town centre. However this is not the whole problem. I regularly walk into the town.

I wade through the litter in the subways; ignore the obscene graffiti on the street furniture, play chicken with the cyclists and apologise for having the cheek to walk on the pavement or in the subway.

Then, of course there are the ‘silent but deadly’ e-scooters that come at you with no warning.

Isn’t there a law governing their use? Then on the way home there are the scatterings of empty alcohol cans and bottles in every hedge and under benches.

I seem to remember that there was a by-law banning drinking alcohol outside in the town centre, does this still exist?

With all the development in the town, if we wish to make Maidenhead the ‘go to place’ for shopping and living then we need to clean up our act and have some sort of cleaning regime and enforcement.

If this doesn’t happen then shoppers will not want to visit and shops won’t want to open.

KEN AMERY Camden Road

Maidenhead