Madam,

I would agree with most of Mr Watt’s letter about the proposed Llanbedr bypass. Particularly about the danger for pedestrians walking up the southern hill in the face of massive 12-wheeler lorries. We need only a narrow - eg 18-inch wide - pedestrian walk-way inside the line of parked cars.

We in the Save the Llanbedr Village, Stop the Southern Bypass (SLVSSB) were prompted by a letter from Joyce Watson, our AM, to carry out a study over four weeks in the middle of the tourist season of the alleged gridlocks in Llanbedr.

To summarise it, the traffic flow through nearly all the day was quite adequate - over 12 vehicles/minute and vastly better than in many other towns, eg Pwllheli. But between 11am and 1pm grid-locks did develop suddenly and in the worst case it could take 20 minutes to get through the village, eg on Friday or Saturday.

But the answer surely is to go for a cheap solution, traffic lights at the bridge, and zoned parking as in Dyffryn.

To spend £11m on a bypass which will be overtaken before it is opened by developing technology, by driverless vehicles, is clearly daft. Daft on environmental grounds, daft on health grounds because it will increase the amount of cancerous diesel emissions.

Opposition to the bypass was led by Callum Hughes and he now has to be politically neutral as a result of his senior planning appointment in Cardiff. We really need someone with equal vigour and a local background to take the lead.

Yours etc,

Graham Tottle, Maes Artro, Llanbedr.

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