I spent a day at Cowley, Oxford, and thought it was ideal weather to push my disabled mother around the shops and park in Blackbird Leys. Has no-one heard of dropped kerbs?

In a circular route of Pegasus Road, the leisure centre, the bowls club and the parade of shops, I found only two places where any provision for wheelchairs had been made.

On one of these, the step of more than an inch on reaching the kerbside meant reversing the wheelchair in the road to cross it.

I saw two residents using electric scooters on the carriageway, and dangerous though this may be, they had little option.

We must have travelled twice the distance we intended just to find places to cross.

I then bought a copy of the Oxford Mail and saw that £5m had been spent on resurfacing Cornmarket Street, but no-one seemed able to explain why this was necessary.

I would challenge anyone on the council to spend time pushing an adult in a wheelchair around this route, then ask themselves whether they have their spending priorities right.

If they choose to start at the nearby elderly people's bungalows, the first problem to overcome is how to leave. With road junctions on either side and no dropped kerbs, you are stuck at stage one.

Come on, Oxford, do more to assist the disabled.

Here, in South Gloucestershire, every corner has a dropped kerb and we don't have high numbers of elderly or disabled residents.

GEORGE LINES

Frampton Cotterell

Bristol