MAY I join the swelling ranks of people saying "who on earth dreamed this up?" As a resident of Calne I use Wood Street and Curzon Street daily and I am appalled at the recent changes.

First I would like to apologise to all those poor hapless drivers who I have cursed at because they would not wait at the Post Office give way sign. Also I would like to thank profusely the kind and considerate drivers who do give way at the Curzon Street end to allow traffic through.

Why on earth did the traffic planners think that the change was a jolly good idea which in effect brings the free flow of traffic to a half? It now takes far longer to get through the town with a regular bottleneck in Wood/Curzon Street.

The zebra crossing is a lethal accident waiting to happen.

There is always a long line of traffic waiting to get through so this in effect obscures the view of anyone on the crossing. On Friday last I had yet another near miss when a lady started to cross thinking the traffic had stopped for her. Luckily I was at crawl pace so was able to stop instantly.

But the second obstacle was a Parcel Force van that had stopped to deliver to the shops, completely blocking the street, creating a huge bottleneck that no one could get out of. So if I had knocked down and injured the lady, tell me how an ambulance would have got through?

Or if a fire broke out in that area what would happen to the emergency vehicles? The traffic was backed up all along Oxford Road, North Road and Curzon Street with all manner of large vehicles not easy to move out of the way i.e. buses, delivery vans, along with the usual rush hour traffic.

Many drivers also do not comply with the new mini roundabout at the BP garage nor do they comply with the 20mph zone.

Please traffic planners have a re-think. I wouldn't mind yet another upheaval as long as the traffic could flow through. I wonder what visitors to our lovely town think? It would certainly put me off from shopping here.

N WILLOUGHBY

Calne