THURSDAY mornings are interesting, when one reads your Letters page, occasionally even checking that one's own letter has been accurately printed. Unfailingly, it always has.
Two letters appeared in the Okehampton Times on March 7 from people known to me, one drawing attention to a speed restriction on a straight stretch of road with substantially no residents and the other a longer letter with several valid points, culminating in a reference to the narrowing of two traffic lanes into one at the western entry to Okehampton.
This was a subject well publicised in your paper at the time. You published many letters of objection without I believe a single correspondent supporting the change.
There was one other letter last week where the correspondent refers back to David Bagshall's letter, published on February 28. He used one or two interesting expressions such as 'the damage done by the enhancements' and 'Devon County Council wanting our views but actually never taking any notice'.
There was one incident which stays in my memory. Just as work was about to commence on narrowing two lanes into one outside Lloyds Bank, I was waiting to cross over Market Street and I found that I was standing next to a friend, who does not own a car.
I asked for his opinion on the projected change. He did not give a direct answer. His reply was 'Well, you won't get them to change their minds, will you?'
Geoffrey Gill
East Cleave
Sourton