I, AND I suspect every other local resident, am beyond disappointed at councillor Peter King’s comments about the Dinas Powys bypass; I am sickened to the very core of my being. Why?

1. Developing public transport links and providing safe walking and cycling routes will not stop the huge lorries hurrying along Cardiff Road. Dangerous at any time but at school time parents have to keep their children as far back from the kerb as possible to avoid the suction that such vehicles create.

2. To say ‘this is something the council is working to do’ simply isn’t true. A lady was killed walking from Barry to Dinas Powys two years ago. Where is the safe walking path that the council has provided as a result?

3. Traffic diverts through the old village of Dinas Powys to avoid the Cardiff Road. They ignore all speed limits be it a statutory one or a common sense one. I witnessed a car damage a parked car and not stop last week. Next week it will be a person.

4. Councillor King has obviously forgotten, or perhaps doesn’t know that the mothers of Dinas held a sit down in the road protest 20 years ago – and the situation is immeasurably worse since then.

If Cllr King and his colleagues would come and spend some time experiencing these things we would have a by-pass tomorrow.

Roger Golding

St Andrews Major

Dinas Powys