RE The Hilperton Gap road: Though nearly 200 of us local residents attended the farce they called a meeting to provide our views regarding the speed limit to keep at 30 or 40mph maximum, the council or highways has given no thought for the people who live here and have thus brought in a 50mph speed limit.

This speed has the potential for accidents and death to occur on this stretch of road over the coming years.

I feel that this idiotic decision has been sanctioned by a person with no thought or conscience for the unfortunate child or person who is killed, nor for his or her family for their loss.

No doubt, in a courtroom, they might not give a verdict of manslaughter when this happens, but both myself and many more will be thinking this.

Please give this some thought and reduce this limit, so that we can all sleep at night.

Might I also add that a 50mph going into a 30mph roundabout with pedestrians is pure madness, where the limit should be reduced long before the roundabout.

Robert Taylor, Wyke Road, Trowbridge