Madam,

May I offer my complete agreement with Dr Steve Rollins about the dangers of the narrow road through Cwm Maethlon (Happy Valley)?

It is actually four miles shorter than going via Aberdyfi but it has several blind bends and summits and is absolutely unsuitable for large vehicles. Sat-navs are not programmed to recognise the type of road they send drivers down and, yes, some users drive along this road too fast.

For the council officers to say that the requested warning signs to HGVs are not necessary “due to its location” simply means that it is “too far from Caernarfon” for these people to bother about.

This to my mind amounts to nothing less than a criminal dereliction of their statutory duty to protect the public.

I use the road with great caution and then only at night in the holiday season when I can see oncoming traffic and they can see me.

Do we have to wait for a fatal accident and/or get up a petition for our opinions to be noticed?

If the length of time and number of deaths and injuries it took to provide the roundabouts on the Dolgellau bypass is anything to go by (and that is an “A” class road), then we shall all be driving electric cars (post 2040) by the time anything is done – that is unless we all insist that the council gets off its corporate backside and does something.

Yours etc,

Nick Smyth, Llwyngwril.

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