The leisurely pace of the road repairs around St Cuthbert's Church has been a source of frustration and annoyance for months.
Bedfordshire Highways has the power to maximise inconvenience and delay for motorists, so they seem bent on using such powers to the fullest extent possible. I am sure they are beating all their internal targets in that regard.
The Mill Street and St Cuthbert's Street misery has been multiplied by EDF undertaking work on cables in Mill Street.
Well, the more the merrier, I suppose.
And in that spirit, while Bedfordshire Highways have all the plant and equipment out of the shed, perhaps they could trundle along to Rope Walk for a few days (or weeks in their parlance).
Driving from St John's Street along Rope Walk to Cardington Road is like driving across a ploughed field. Rope Walk has been taken up and re-laid so often that the road's original surface level has long been lost in the mists of time.
Even the wonders of modern suspension can no longer iron out all the jarring humps and bumps left as a result.
I know, I know: getting Highways to resurface this road will not a smooth and trouble free process and the traffic jams they gleefully cause will be endless. But I am hoping the finished job will be a softer and silkier ride than it has been for the last five years.
They could even get it done over a summer weekend - couldn't they?
