It’s not just Devizes Road with its “no right turn” (Ditch the signs - Richard Fuller) being a waste of money.

Look at that shambles of a junction at Whalebridge and see all the cars turning right through bus lanes across the flow of traffic into Corporation Street or continuing along Fleming Way.

Surely there will be accidents, but when will the council realise that blocking off roads only causes problems and that people still need to go to the same places, and end up going round in circles.

Yes, it’s a joke, similarly (Loopy Logic - John Gough) there is no logic behind the changes.

I guess it was planned the same way as the Turnpike/Blunsdon bypass and the Belle Vue/Drove Road junction.

No doubt our town planners have decided that the decline in the town centre cannot be halted and that town centre traders are indeed “put out of their misery.”

The new rat runs WILL be soon be blocked off. The message is clear: Stay away from Swindon.

As for the traffic planners designing an extension to the Hampton Court Maze, forget it.

With their no right turns, buses only, no street lights, non-existent wi-fi, schools where they’re not wanted, you’d never be able to get in it, let alone get out of it.

And, besides, such places of heritage and cultural significance will simply be demolished or allowed to rot away.

M Archer York Road, Swindon

Creation poser

In response to Larry Wright’s opinion on the teaching of evolution and creation, could he please tell a layman like myself how could nothing suddenly create something all by itself?

Surely it’s a scientific impossibility.

And when I see the complexity and beauty of the whole of creation, to me, it seems that it would take more faith (and a blind one at that) to be an atheist.

I am not being arrogant because everybody has been given the choice, but it says at the beginning of Psalm 14 “the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.”

I just hope that when Larry Wright goes the way of all men that he will no longer be a fool, because eternity is a long time.

Steve Jack Damson Trees, Shrivenham

What about us?

Regarding the development at the Oasis, there’s no mention of the bowls centre.

Does this mean the bowlers will not be included in this development?

It’s the only sport most pensioners get exercise and pleasure from and have done for many years.

Now it looks as if they are going to have this taken from them, but then we are old and are not taken into consideration, or so it seems.

I understand the bowls committee has no idea what is happening and next year’s fees would normally be due about this time of the year.

It also seems as if the Swindon Card will now become obsolete for this venue.

Name and address supplied

Apprentices vital

In his letter of March 26, Mike Spry is right with his views on apprenticeships. I had a five-year indentured apprenticeship which combined shopfloor and engineering office training with two days a week at college. This took me eventually to Fellowship of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the title of Chartered Engineer. My career in the manufacturing industry was long, varied and satisfying.

Swindon and the rest of the UK need to encourage start up and established firms to invest, and for the council to create conditions attractive to business.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is holding an Engineers Question Time on May 22 at 6.30pm at Intel, Pipers Way, to discuss this subject and to invite questions from the audience.

The panel will include Gavin Jones, of Swindon Council, Kate Coughlan, of Swindon College and leading engineers from Honda, Alcatel Lucent, RWE npower and Intel.

All those interested in engineering should come along for a constructive discussion.

We need craftsmen, tradesmen and women, as well as professional engineers in all subjects to help restart our economy.

Derek Bateman CEng FIET Professional Registration Adviser Institution of Engineering and Technology Swindon Network