Roads a disgrace

IT'S a long way from Bristol to Sheffield - at least, if you go via mid Wales, Preston and Callander in Scotland.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Sep 2007, 13:58 BST
Updated 20th Sep 2007, 11:57 BST

That was the route I took last week, joining three other friends on a motorcycle tour before calling in on my Mother in Oughtibridge. I promised the rest of the group some good biking roads over the moors, coming in over Midhopestones and Wigtwizzle. Roads that I cut my motorcycling teeth on over 30 years ago!

As soon as we turned off the A616 I knew I had made a mistake. We rode on roads in a dreadful state of repair; roads which were bad enough to put us in danger. Having grown up in Wortley District I was annoyed to think that Sheffield was taking taxes from the rural areas and spending them (as I thought) on urban Sheffield.

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I was even more surprised to discover that the roads round Hillsborough were just as bad. What Sheffield's motorcycle accident rate is I dread to think.

Sheffield must now be a candidate for the overall worst roads in the country.

Gordon James, Bristol

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