THE chronic traffic congestion experienced on Glasgow’s Shieldhall Road cannot be helped by a weight restriction which displaces/larger slower vehicles onto this area. This was served upon the Clyde Tunnel Expressway flyover 2011 (shortly following completion of M74’s final phase).

Also, non emergency vehicles exiting Hardgate Road westbound have to compete with fast approaching traffic emerging from Fifty Pitches Road which must present a viable case for Filtered Signalisation.

Creating direct M8 Eastbound access from Berryknowes Road/Meiklewood Road may relieve the Shieldhall corridor. With or without such being provided, a sharp bend immediately south of the Meiklewood roundabout calls for slight road-widening as large vehicles are currently forced to inconvenience oncoming traffic.

Andy McIntyre, via email

THANK you Evening Times for highlighting the issue of the gridlock near to the hospital.

It is right to describe it as a nightmare. So what happens next? When will we see some form of action on this?

C Gentles, Govan

AFTER listening to the evening news about a northern town increasing council tax and other councils thinking of following, I hope Glasgow City Council is not thinking of doing so. With the tax paid today, the people of this city are clearly not getting the services the council are meant to be doing.

As a former community councillor, I have had and still have issues with the city council in lack of repairs to roads, pavements and lighting. And they certainly take their time months in fact. Totally unacceptable,

Bill Beckett, via email

Garnethill

Glasgow

LIGHTBURN Hospital, in the city’s east end is facing closure.

I remember being in this hospital when I was five or six years old in the 50s. I had scarlet fever, and also caught chicken pox on the day I was to be released. I remember the nurses were very kind to me.

Billy McCoid, posted online

WHY is the SNP sending £12 million in aid overseas when we have foodbanks and homeless people here in Scotland. Have they not heard the oil is gone? And that charity begins at home

Les Trueman

Glasgow

GOOD luck to the couple who won the Lottery. They seem a decent couple who want to help others as well. Playing the lucky dip has left them quids in and I think the lotto organisers forcing us all down that route.

How are you meant to win anything when you don't have enough numbers now that they have been extended.

I'll be forgetting my old lines and just hope they don't come up.

C Perkins,

Kinning Park