THE Darlington 10k road race, held on Sunday, August 9, once again caused disruption, chaos and inconvenience to the residents of the affected streets and anyone else wanting to travel along Darlington’s roads (Echo, Aug 10).

No provision was made to inform the public of the road closures (a random scattering of yellow signs in not enough), and no consideration was made for people carrying out their usual Sunday activities. Some residents could not attend their church services by car, thus denying the old and infirm their Christian devotion.

I am sure the participants enjoyed their race and spectators enjoyed watching, but isn’t it about time it was removed from the streets?

We do not want our streets closed. We do not want to do a circular tour of the town to reach a close destination. I wanted to go from Larchfield Street to Sainsbury’s but had to travel round the entire inner ring road to achieve this.

Visitors to the town on that Sunday morning would have been totally confused with useless sat-navs. Information for them was non-existent.

Enjoy your running by all means but run round the South Park (it’s big enough) and leave our streets and roads alone.

Derek Hutchinson, Darlington.