IT SEEMS a very busy time for roadworks all over Bournemouth, especially by the gas company replacing our old household gas pipes with new ones for the future.

This is an essential job and full marks must be given to all the workmen who spend every day in our most recent atrocious weather conditions making our pathways safe for walking and putting up innumerable barriers for safety round some very deep holes.

If you haven’t watched these men at work, then you haven’t noticed what a dirty, wet job they are doing.

Everyone of them is polite and smiling and I cannot praise them enough for their professionalism – in what is definitely a cold, wet, mucky job.

Indeed all construction people and road maintenance workers should be thanked.

Next time you say ‘not more roadworks’ remember these works are essential in all cases (except for unnecessary cycle paths)

Just think how much money the government could save nationally by temporarily postponing these very underused cycle paths

ROSEMARY WARREN

Springfield Avenue, Bournemouth