I appreciate it's the price of progress, that it's an investment in the future of this fine city, but doesn't your heart go out to all the those businesses down Cameron Road that are having the life choked out of them by orange barriers, road cones and road works?

It's sad to watch.

Doors are open for business, but no parking and no customers.

The powers that be must have been aware before the works started that businesses would be severely affected.

I wonder whether if compensation was built into the cost of the work, or assistance to relocate those businesses. First Covid and then the council. They have endured tough times.

Progress comes at a cost, but how will that cost be paid?

F McNelly, Greerton.