AM I alone in being reduced to speechless anger each time I visit the council waste disposal site on Foss Island Road? Whatever the day or time there is a queue to get in. The skips inside are nearly all full. The road surface is pitted with potholes and strewn with potentially dangerous objects.

In an inspirational move the 'specialists' skips, for receiving electrical goods and building rubble etc, have been placed right at the entrance to the site. As a result, vans and lorries block access to the rest of the skips while they unload their waste. When the queues become very bad, cars are told to go round in the opposite direction - causing complete gridlock.

The staff there seem to be occupied with salvaging valuable bits of rubbish already in skips, and rather truculent in their attitude to the public. I get the impression that they resent having anyone other than "trade" customers there.

As I sit there in the traffic jam I often find myself gazing at the "Beacon Council" sticker on the council vehicles there. "Beacon Council" - they must be joking.

D R Moss,

Palmes Close, Naburn.