W A SANDERS, of Broadway Avenue, Kingsteignton, writes:

I read with interest the findings of Kingsteignton's council re the congestion problems experienced by the town.

I am in full agreement that the Fore Street one-way systems is a fiasco. However, I cannot see how Cllr Keith Howard's idea of making Ley Lane (from Teign School to the traffic lights) and Chudleigh Road (from Gestridge Road to the school) into one-way streets will achieve anything. In fact, I think it will push even more traffic down through Greenbank Avenue into the narrow, often very busy, Broadway Road and subsequently out into the Fountain area at a junction that, even now, can be a nightmare to pull out of.

This observation is based purely on the fact that for years I have caught the bus near St Michael's Church Hall often at a time when the mothers of the toddler group were collecting their children. Most others came by car and I estimate that for every car that crossed to Greenbank or turned right towards the school at least six had turned left towards Gestridge.

The hall is a popular venue and all using it, like the mothers, will be forced to use other probably much longer routes.

The bus from Chudleigh would be forced to use Ley Lane, leading to the need for a bus stop which in turn would lead to the loss of much-needed parking spaces.

Although I have only a vague recollection of it, I am told this one-way plan arose two or three years ago and was thrown out on highways grounds and with the full backing of our MP Mr Younger Ross. So why has it reared its ugly head again? Surely members of our council should recall this decision.

The Fore Street fiasco has forced thousands of people to drive extra, totally unnecessary, miles and the Ley Lane/Chudleigh Road idea will do exactly the same.

We do need new roads to lighten our congestion. Unfortunately, the new road that would have helped the most, from Gallows Cross, across the river, railway and canal to the roundabout at Jetty Marsh, has been removed from Sibelco's urban extension/urban village scheme.

Probably, I suspect, because the land is either on the flood plain or is too swampy and unstable to build on.

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