ROAD safety campaigners in Ceredigion must keep putting pressure on the Welsh Government to back safety schemes on the A487 in the county, Ceredigion council’s leader has said.

Cllr Ellen ap Gwynn said she had been pushing for transport cabinet secretary Ken Skates to consider safety improvements on the A487 through her ward of Ceulanmaesmawr and would continue to lobby the Welsh Government for action to be taken at areas including Taliesin, Glandyfi, Eglwysfach and Furnace.

While Cllr ap Gwynn said she had already written to the cabinet secretary, she said she would not stop making the case for safety improvements and urged other councillors to continue to push the Welsh Government for improvements.

She said: “We need to keep lobbying the Welsh Government about this as it’s not good enough.”

Cllr ap Gwynn’s advice came after Cllr Alun Lloyd Jones said that he was unhappy that his long-running campaign for safety measures on the A487 at Chancery, Llanfarian and Rhydyfelin had fallen on deaf ears.

Cllr Jones said following a string of serious crashes at Chancery, including a fatal crash last year, that urgent action was needed, but that he had been fighting for over 26 years only for successive Welsh Government ministers to take no action.

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