Madam,

Referring to your excellent articles previously about the Llanbedr bypass, the new temporary lights raise again the proposals often made in your paper, for example by Jenny Ratcliffe, about the perils of Llanbedr hill and the need for traffic lights at the bridge to avoid fatalities and eliminate congestion.

Ambulances have often been delayed, hemmed in for 30 minutes or more.

The temporary lights impose convoys which cause instead no delays of significance.

The hill rising south out of Llanbedr is steep, twisting and dangerous, and vehicles often come swerving down the hill travelling at well over the 30mph limit. For pedestrians to walk it is very risky. You have to dodge in and out round parked cars as oncoming vehicles allow.

Now, therefore, is the time to reverse Snowdonia Park Authority and Gwynedd Council’s plan for a £14 million bypass which would suffocate the village, and instead to install traffic lights?

And we could have a pedestrian walkway a metre wide to be marked out in yellow.

The traffic light option was shown to be immensely effective when it was installed by the highways authority to allow for broadband lines to be laid in a trench.

Traffic passed through effectively in convoys and Llanbedr ceased to be a traffic bottleneck. We recorded the passage of traffic during and after.

This has often been raised in your columns.

May we ask the Snowdonia Park Authority to reply to these calls?

Yours etc,

Graham Tottle,

Maes Artro,

Llanbedr.

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