Madam,

May I answer Graham Tottle’s letter (‘Bypasses have created ghost towns for our communities‘, 24 November) with more bypass talk.

In his letter he refers to the traffic emissions drifting across the fields into the village from heavy lorries and cars.

Perhaps he can explain just where he thinks the fumes are going when, during the summers when the traffic sits gridlocked day after day, from 8.30am till 5.30pm, and it takes up to 40 minutes to travel less than half a mile, which is all caused by parking and large vehicles trying to get through the village.Another point is that young children have to walk this busy, narrow road, to and from school. Does Mr Tottle not accept that this is dangerous and that reducing the traffic through the village would be good for them?

He says this will also rob the village of business when, to my thoughts, this will not be the case, since a very large proportion of any business in Llanbedr is local and residents will continue to use the same, unless we are going to get a mega influx of cafés, newsagents, hairdressers and supermarkets on the airfield.

Just where does Mr Tottle think the land is to park cars in Llanbedr? They missed the boat to buy the old youth hostel.

I understand him not wanting change and the not in our back-yard feelings, but a bypass will be good for businesses outside of Llanbedr. It is a large strain sitting in traffic jams, especially if you are doing it three or four times a day. This is very costly to business people and their customers, who are having to pay for their time for sitting in traffic.

Yours etc

John Watt

Dyffryn Ardudwy.