Letter: Shropshire roads need improving
In the August 30 edition of the Shropshire Star you reported on the fresh efforts by North Shropshire MPs to obtain funding for the NWRR and dualling of the A5 west of Shrewsbury.
Yet again no mention was made of the desperate need to dual and improve sections of the A49 between Ludlow and Shrewsbury, a road that has been in great need of funding for the last two decades and most certainly deserves a higher priority than the proposed NWRR.
On the front page of the same edition the headline article refers to the proposal, if not a certainty, to close down one of the two A&Es departments in Shrewsbury and Telford.
In the event of such a move the need to improve the A49 to allow for faster and safer transit times for ambulance and patients in South Shropshire is paramount and should be the major focus for the local MPs, who to date, seem to be deaf, dumb and blind to the issue.
Perhaps they will wake up when their constituents realise that the lives of loved ones are being put at risk by Shropshire's somnambulant politicians.
Peter Morgan, Clunbury
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