MADAM - Further to my recent letter to you on road closures in Gloucestershire.

This week on August 27 and 28, road signs appeared on the Horse Trough Roundabout stating the road was closed into Stonehouse town.

While I was there one morning, two delivery vans and a couple of cars went round the roundabout twice, not knowing where to go, until they saw the diversion signs telling them to go along the Bristol Road toward the M5, at the Oldends Lane roundabout the diversion signs sends them on towards the M5.

Where they went from there I do not know?

According to a friend of mine who was due to visit us that morning in Rosedale Avenue, she went all round Oldends Lane and through Park Estate because she was unable to get to us from the top of Oldends Lane because you could only turn left towards Gloucester.

Why was all this inconvenience caused?

Because the council/contractors did not inform the public that the road into Stonehouse was open for shops etc as far as the Esso Fuel Station and Chestnut Avenue.

This must have affected trade.

The road was in fact closed from the Esso Garage to Woodcock Lane and will remain closed while they are re-laying a new road surface.

So Stonehouse town was cut off unless you were local and knew your way around.

They took the easy option and put up a couple of cones and a 'road closed' sign.

During the course of a week I travel round a fair bit of our beautiful county and most days I find a road closed for some reason or another and no further information.

If I have this problem there must be thousands more having the same problem.

Personally I think they should have a big fine for the above and for leaving traffic lights up when it is quite obvious work has finished.

But that's another story.

Please council/contractors get your act together and use signs that give the correct information and make all our lives a bit easier.

Bob Lusty Stonehouse