To Cllr Steve Lydon and Canals Trust:

Oh dear, oh dear. What on earth is going on at Bowbridge?

Unlike many other people, I really don’t have a problem with the road being a single lane over the canal, but I do have a massive problem to how the path has been completed in this area.

Many people have been supporting the canals trust for decades.

Many like my partners father, with a view to using the tow paths as and when they are completed and opened.

However these people are now getting older and possibly disabled or in wheelchairs.

On top of this people use pushchairs along the canal and Cllr Lydon in your case, saying how lucky we are to be providing for cyclists (your quote in Leaders Diary in Stroud Life this week), Bowbridge fails in all ways to provide.

The only people that can access this area is fully able bodied.

Why do I come to this conclusion?

Only very steep steps from the road.

The path under the road is extremely narrow with limited headroom as the road bridge encroaches on any average sized persons head and then steps up and down on the Stroud side of the road.

Where are the ramps and wide spaces for all, that have been promised throughout the Stroud canals?

This would allow for everyone to use it.

Maybe it doesn’t matter as this area is past Stroud.

Is that it?

Not good enough.

At all levels, there is complete failure by all to provide for all.

What a sorry state and such a shame that when you had such a good chance to achieve, its appalling.

Yours disappointed

Mr Ray Relph

Stroud