SIR I would take issue with only one paragraph of Rose Ford's letter. The contractors have been on site at 7am every morning and leave well after 4pm more often than not. They have also worked some weekends. I don't conciously monitor their comings and goings, but as very few vehicles pass my house, I notice them. Throughout the whole debacle I have walked down at least once a week to check progress, since I too am seriously inconvenienced by this road closure. Blame can be laid squarely on the Highways Department for lack of advance planning. Such obvious things as water and sewage pipes would obviously have to be moved – Welsh Water have hardly covered themselves with glory by simply not turning up when promised. On/ off decisions as to whether electricity cables should be 'undergrounded' meant some very skillful lifting to get the culvert sections in place – more time consuming than it should have been. As for the excuse of a wren nesting, since MCC had been told that Dr Stephanie Tyler had been monitoring the dippers which nest beneath the bridge for years, why was advice not sought early about the possible re-use of the nest? We now have a 20m concrete culvert through which a vehicle could be driven, in place of a small and historic stone bridge. We wait to see what problems may be caused by straightening out the Angiddy River. We have been promised that the road will be resurfaced; as it is a designated cycle route and the potholes are now beyond a joke, one can only hope that this is done before there is another cyclist seriously injured. Janet Saunders (Tintern)