Further to my letter regarding road signs on the A40, Road signs aren't legal (Oxford Mail, June 16), I wish to provide the following information:

In the summer/autumn of 2000, signs were erected extending the 40mph restriction on the B4044 in Farmoor. But these were not legal until mid-December, when Oxfordshire County Council finally condescended to issue the necessary legal order.

In April 2001, the council issued a proposed order to amend some of the speed limits in Eynsham which named a junction which does not exist and another questionable location. In addition, it proposed the derestriction of part of Oxford Road, but within two or three days, a new 30mph sign was painted on that same length of road.

The location errors were pointed out to the council and corrected on the final order.

In January 2003, the process began to issue an amendment order regarding parking restrictions in Mill Street, Eynsham.

The original order had an error in that the plan and text differed to which side of the road the parking restriction applied. We now come to the 'No U-turn' signs on the A40. The order read A40/Eynsham Road with no mention of Cassington.

The only junction that this can refer to is that on the eastbound carriageway of the A40. The signs are on the traffic lights on the westbound carriageway and the order should have read A40/Cassington Road.

The cost of the work so far is £3,434 and it will cost a few hundred pounds more to issue the corrected order. The signs have had no legality since March 11, and it will be several weeks more before they can become legal.

Mistakes seem to be made by different staff, but why are the mistakes not spotted by the area surveyors and, in some cases, even by the legal department?

The above are all minor council errors in the Eynsham area, but I wonder what is happening elsewhere in the county. There seems to be a great deal of carelessness and lack of coordination in the transport department. Perhaps this could explain the major 'cock-ups'.

Since the recent elections, council leader Keith Mitchell was reported as saying that the new council regime would get tough with the bureaucrats. Can we hope that a start has been made sorting out the transport department? JOHN BLAKEMAN, Newland Close, Eynsham