Editor

You reported last week on the authorisation of the proposed £20 million Llanbedr bypass. But all that’s needed is traffic lights at Artro Bridge.

Nearly all in the village have successfully opposed this bypass for six years, as has been recorded in many of your columns with tremendous effect.

We have observed from our house, which overlooks the hill up from the bridge, the flow of traffic and we have recorded the number of vehicles passing at peak periods when traffic lights were being used to control the traffic flow during works on the gas main. The average delay was up to three minutes. No longer than similar delays all along the A496 to Barmouth.

During the recent season we had many more visitors passing through than in previous years because they were unable to go to, for example, Spain. The three-minute maximum delay still applied. And if the manytimesrecommended traffic lights at the bridge were set up, transit through for traffic to the airfield and Shell Island would be easy.

So the key issue is for Gwynedd Council highways department, to abandon this £19m white elephant and instead to concentrate on the real post-Covid–19 world.

Your columns for example have quoted the need for massive reductions in cancerous emissions, and expenditure on cars and trucks to be reduced. That is a target which is environmentally friendly and will attract many tourists.

Graham Tottle Maes Artro Llanbedr

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