In response to Cmdr Peter Tambling's letter ‘Planning bosses are not listening’ (Your Say, May 21), let me assure you that highway planners most definitely are listening.

In the case of the Weymouth Transport Package, of which the changes at the Jubilee Clock are a part, three stages of public engagement have been conducted.

Throughout this engagement one message has been received loud and clear by the highway planners; that current conditions on both King Street and Boot Hill are unacceptable, and something must be done.

Equally clear is that public transport in Weymouth and Portland needs to be improved.

The Weymouth Transport Package in an ambitious scheme that seeks to address both of these issues in a serious and meaningful way for many years to come.

The scheme is of overwhelming benefit to the vast majority of car and bus users and to the Weymouth economy as a whole.

However, we do accept that some individuals will have concerns about specific details and remain unconvinced.

Returning to Cmdr Tambling’s point about the Jubilee Clock junction, as part of a wider review of traffic signing in Weymouth, ferry traffic will be directed from Manor Roundabout down Dorchester Road.

Other traffic currently turning right, of which there is very little, will indeed have to find alternatives.

The overall scheme was not possible without this restriction and, while regrettable, it has been accepted as a necessary part of providing the benefit of the scheme as a whole.

Matthew Piles, Strategic Projects Manager, Environmental Services, Dorset County Council