Madam,

In response to Wil Jones’ letter regarding Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor in Pwllheli and the pollution students are exposed to (‘No parent wants thickening haze of polluted air for pupils’, Letters, 6 June).

I requested that the Highways Department of Gwynedd Council monitor the traffic movement on this already dangerous and congested hill, at Allt Salem.

Strangely enough they chose to do this when the college was closed for Easter but 1,200 cars per day travelled up and down the hill at this quiet time so the numbers would increase greatly during the term, with taxis and drop-offs and the fact that the college has already created an additional 50 car parking spaces last year.

Given that the planning is for 15 more houses on the old hockey pitch, this would add a potential further 34 cars a day making return/multiple journeys.

A new plot of land is for sale, with a potential of another 24 vehicles that would need to use this hill to access the town.

It is not just the pollution that has been ignored but the safety of students on the hill.

Yours etc,

Jennifer Marland,

Penrallt,

Pwllheli.

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