WE all know that funding for road schemes is limited and difficult choices have to be made.

A key question when someone promises to build a Dinas Powys bypass is what is the competition for the funding? What other pledges are being made across Wales for important road schemes.

These pledges are not broadcast in the Vale of Glamorgan. The belated Conservative support for a bypass is welcome but we must ask how realistic is the apparent pledge.

The challenge is for the Conservatives to prove that the bypass is their top manifesto, not local, priority. In Montgomery they want a bypass around Llanymynech leading to Shrewsbury, then in the north they are very bitter that nothing is spent in their patch and object to anything else being spent here.

In Cardiff the priority has been the recently approved Eastern Bay Link leading to Rover Way which costs £57 million for this section alone. Then they back continuing the road to the A48 to be constructed on piers in the estuary at huge cost.

The Conservatives want to spend £1.2 billion on the M4. In Pembrokeshire they campaign for the duelling of the A40. The list goes on.

The chancellor in his chaotic budget wants to cut another £3.5 billion from spending. So where is the money coming from?

Added to which Conservatives supported the Local Development Plan which specifically excluded a bypass. Plaid Cymru has campaigned for a bypass for years but we are not making irresponsible promises.

There is need for some straight talking.

Chris Franks,

Highwalls Avenue,

Dinas Powys