Geoff Allen, of Salcombe Road, Malborough, writes:

Referring to your front-page lead news item in last week’s Gazette, October 14, in which you noted that a vehicle speed survey adjacent to Kingsbridge Community College revealed that the percentage of vehicles exceeding the legal limit in one direction was ‘almost 50 ­percent’ can be compared with figures for a survey carried out in Malborough. This survey, undertaken in April 2015 and located on the Malborough to Salcombe main A381 road, around 150 metres inside where the 30mph limit starts, showed that 45.6 per cent of vehicles travelling towards Salcombe were exceeding the speed limit.

However, this figure was far exceeded by vehicles entering Malborough from the Salcombe direction, with 62.6 per cent exceeding the limit. Combining the figures shows that 56.3 per cent of vehicles passing through the survey area were exceeding the 30mph limit.

‘So what has been done?’, you may well ask. The police, whom I always thought were required to uphold the law, have seemingly not increased their presence since the survey was carried out 18 months ago.

The parish council is keen to have vehicle-activated speed signs erected at both ends of the village, but to date plans have been thwarted by very slow-moving bureaucracy.

So for now Malborough ­residents have no option but to continue to dodge the illegally speeding traffic until, presumably, somebody is killed. What a sorry state of affairs.