I AM delighted to confirm to George Dale (Letters, June 7) that the road workers are indeed out and about. Right outside my front door.
After decades of institutionalised neglect by local council scheme goblins believing we should get our non-existent butlers to do it, let history record that on Friday, June 1, 2018 commenced the first full resurfacing of Linn Park Gardens' roads since its creation 50 years earlier.
This splendid figure of eight – representing the finest circuit of pot holes, cracks and crevices our island nation has to offer – stands testament to decades of half-buttocked patch jobs from mixtures of hot tar, asphalt, aggregate, creosote, brick noggins and Rice Krispies. By Thursday June 14, no longer will American Mormon missionaries with future plans to become astronauts back home be able to get in some sneak training for circumnavigating rough extra-terrestrial surfaces by vehicle and on foot.
Now that even our legendary Upside Down Tree has grown back to its normal shape after a previous resident's Mr Bean attempt to trim it themselves. The loss of all our local sites of interest to tourists surely warrants some sort of economic rescue package from Holyrood and Historic Scotland?
Mark Boyle,
15 Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone.
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