Topsham Road

I am sorry to take this tone with Devon County Council but how sly can you get. They are completely destroying the route into Exeter along the Topsham Road by reducing to almost nil the beautiful grass verges which have been a feature for as long as I know for ever. Once gone they will never be reinstated.How dare they destroy a feature of the journey into Exeter. They have already reduced its width by widening the footpath so that it is shared, and very dangerous, with cyclists. Even then cyclists continue to use the road. Why not bring in a bye-law that at least says that where there is a cycle path the cyclist must use the path rather than reduce the traffic to a crawl. Cyclists, of which I am one, cannot have it both ways. Huge sums of money spent on putting in cycle paths and then continue to use the roads. What a total and absolute waste of taxpayers money.As for the roadworks along Topsham Road I thought that only routine maintenance could be carried out during the summer months and not road 'improvements' so what has DCC got to say about changes to the road lay-out.