Madam,

May I, as a Kentish woman who has long loved South Snowdonia and holidayed there, write on two aspects of your correspondence about the Llanbedr bypass (Cambrian News, 31 March).

Firstly, as an IT specialist and research botanist for over 20 years, I believe Gwynedd Council is blundering with obsolete technology. The UK government has a world lead in drone technology, and is committed to increasing that lead. Much of the development will occur on Llanbedr airfield. The general implementation of that technology involves robotic control of vehicles, already advancing for HGVs, and this control will make it easy to solve problems like the grid-locked traffic flow in Llanbedr. Traffic will flow through the existing road without any need for a £9m redundant bypass to nowhere. The bypass will be obsolete before it even opens.Secondly, Gwynedd Council is in for a long and costly battle. A similarly anti-social development plan was proposed in Old Fishguard, and even gained parliamentary approval – “Job creation, future looking, must keep up with our times”. All the usual rhetoric. Local residents, led by Billy the Box among others, set up a campaign at £5 a head, and turned the parliamentary decision upside down.

Yours etc

Judith Rose

Ditton

Maidstone.