I fully agree with Brian Chadwick when he said the county council wastes money on futile traffic calming measures but cannot find the £30 per metre to complete the barrier on Oxford's Eastern Bypass (Oxford Mail, June 21).

I have to travel along that other 'major accident blackspot' (tongue in cheek), the A4095 through Long Hanborough twice a day.

The cost of traffic calming on about five kilometres of this road is in the region of £600,000.

This figure was taken from a recent General Election leaflet and equates to £120 per metre, and this does not include the latest traffic island being built at the Lower Road junction.

As far as I am aware, only one fatality has occurred on this stretch of road when sadly a young man ran into the road and was hit by a car.

The speed limit on this stretch of road was reduced to 40mph.

This stretch now has a 30mph limit, four gates, three controlled crossings with humps, three mini islands, an extremely wide cycle path/footpath and a road with a patchwork of colours.

When people in charge of our highways are committed cyclists, the motorist will always lose out.

If a car had crossed the central reservation and hit a cyclist on the cycle path, I am sure work would have already started on the barrier.

Get your priorities right and start the work now, and maybe in the future, people will not have to go through what my friends are going through.

GEOFF JONES

North Leigh