On the road (From Penarth Times)

On the road

I thank Max Wallis for updating me ( Penarth Times, December 24, 2002). He should note that a bypass, providing it is constructed as a bypass, is not just another road.

The fact that the routing has been redefined is of no consequence providing the main purpose and design is that of a bypass.

Public insistence would have ensured its purpose.

The congestion points referred to would of course remain and would serve as an ongoing deterrent to any increase in traffic flow.

The logic is that providing through traffic at Dinas is denied, traffic along a bypass would only remain at the same density to that which would normally flow through Dinas.

Bypasses have always been and will still be constructed with this purpose in mind.

If Friends of the Earth are partly or fully responsible for the shelving of this bypass then what they have succeeded in is to continue the possible poisoning with toxic fumes of residents along Cardiff Road in Dinas and also the inhabitants of a Primary School.

This is now being further enhanced by a diversion of finance to the Waterfront Project producing yet more traffic movement to Cardiff with very little increase in the number of rail passengers.

If a bypass belongs to the last century, to believe that a Vale of Glamorgan extended Rail Link is going to solve the problem at Dinas is living in a dream world.

Nevertheless, time will tell.

Mr K Summers St Cyres Road Penarth