LETTERS: A pointless bridge in Upton

In Upton village, close to the Co-op store on Waggon Lane, there is a humpback bridge over what was once a railway serving Upton Colliery.

I am told the mine shut in November 1964, but now in 2017 the bridge is still there.

I’ve lived in the village for 32 years and have never seen a pedestrian walk under it, it is inaccessible for road vehicles and the railway under it was dismantled decades ago.

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The good news is that the council still spends money maintaining, repairing and upgrading it.

The bridge serves no useful purpose and it is a traffic hazard because of the severity of the hump and its blind summit.

I am probably being stupid but I just can’t understand why the council doesn’t demolish it, lay a flat road where this hazard used to be and stop spending any more of our money maintaining this harmful and unnecessary bridge.

David Hodgson, Cross Street, Upton

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