Bill Dimes, of Ridgeway Road, Newton Abbot, writes:

I support Cllr Hook's concerns about the proposed reduction in size of the Penn Inn flyover when and if the South Devon Link Road is ever built.

I attended two of the public exhibitions held to explain the so-called final plans for the route and revised construction needs required to make the necessary cost savings so that the proposals could meet the budgetary constraints imposed to government funding.

At neither exhibition I attended was it mentioned that the flyover would be restricted to a single lane, but there would be minor alterations which one was led to believe would be the removal of the one metre wide run off strip which was being left out of the rest of the route.

The planners/advisers were so professional at the first exhibition?I attended that they did not even have any up-to-date maps or design plans on display and when I and others started to ask awkward questions we were made to feel as though we were not welcome and should leave.

At the second exhibition the advisers were better prepared but there were still no changed plans for Penn Inn flyover and categorically stated only minor changes were to be made to the original plans.

The planning experts have surely shot themselves in the foot by claiming that a 'significant part of the bypass traffic is going to or from Newton Abbot'.

I would question this assumption and assume that any traffic flow census was carried out at times to fit the cost requirement of the plans. THIS AND OTHER LETTERS IN OUR DIGITAL EDITION