RE the crossing at the junction of St John's Road and Hagley Road, costing over budget by £60,0000 and still unfinished, I am told it has no crash barrier among other things. All it needed was a set of traffic lights by the bus station.

Are all the men sitting in our council chambers crazy?

If we the housewives did our housekeeping like they do then we would all be in big trouble. Our council won't because we pay for their mistakes, no skin off their noses.

None of the people who use the Foster Street subway wanted a surface crossing where they have put it, we already had one.

So, if did not go straight into the High Street, who cares, going through the underpass there into town was never a problem. It is not a subway such as the Foster Street one, with all its dangers.

Then we read of the money it will take to breathe life into the Crown Centre, long overdue. It's been slowly dying for years. When all that is completed, Stourbridge will still be a town with no access other than the Foster Street subway, with all its dangers.

Why can't our councillors listen to the people who trusted and elected them. Why not allow Tesco to build on their own land, thus tidying up the no man's mess that we have put up with for years. They have promised to fill in the subway put a surface crossing into Foster Street where we all wanted it, giving a civilised entrance into Stourbridge town at no cost to the council and delighting all the people who have been forced into that evil place long enough.

They might even put a set of traffic lights at the end of Market Street, thus closing the subway there. My sister was attacked and robbed in that one and was disabled for the rest of her life.

The reason you gave for refusing to allow Tesco in was ludicrous, you said it would have a bad effect on other shops.

Next thing you said yes they could come, if they came where you wanted, namely the Crown Centre.

So much for your concern for the other shops.

We need more supermarkets to bring people in to Stourbridge, ask the ladies in the council and listen to them.

Trudy Curnin Stourbridge