HAVING recently returned from our trip home to see our family in Weymouth, we were struck by the vast improvement to vehicular access to the town centre afforded by the new bypass and roundabouts.

However, these undoubted improvements are offset by the plethora of intelligent traffic lights which then cause severe congestion within the town centre, particularly around the Boot Hill area.

One is left to wonder whether any research was conducted into the traffic flow in this area, as one would expect an anticipated increase in traffic throughflow to the Portland area with the impending Olympic sailing events.

Finally, our Christmas will not be the same without the reindeers at the Asda roundabout, perhaps they’ve been consigned to the same bin as the stone pineapples that greeted visitors on the former road to Dorchester?

We’re left with the overall impression that the county planning department could have done better.

Beverley Scott-McGrory, Bicknell Close, Warrington Cheshire