Mr McEldowney’s letter drew attention to a perceived inadequacy of the road network in and around Bromsgrove, and his belief that investment is badly needed.
He rather spoils this by ending with ‘to ensure that Bromsgrove can grow and prosper’.
Growth and prosperity may have been synonymous 200 years ago, when the planet was lightly, even sparsely populated. Today, growth is readily associated with the problems of severe overcrowding.
On our roads, in rail travel, in schools and in the NHS, plus the need to build on green spaces, in and out of the Green Belt.
Government should be thinking more in terms of contraction to solve our growing problems, surely, but this doesn’t seem to have occurred to them.
Peter McHugh Alvechurch
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