OF COURSE, this is not the best time to argue for a special financial package to solve Crediton's traffic and pollution.
Cullompton's "face lift" must come before the health of people in Crediton.
And Newton Abbot needs its £2 million pounds worth of new roads. Far more important than our breathing bad air and a high level of particulates.
These two important undertakings will cost the county (us) over £5 million pounds. (Read the wonderful magazine Devon Talks for details.)
The region is quite right in guaranteeing £12 million pounds towards a "low carbon" development at Cranbrook.
We must understand that our representatives do not have time, every day, to look at the website which shows that we suffer from illegal levels of air pollution in Crediton. Nor do they have time to vote in measures to protect us.
I am sure the county council representatives will turn up, eventually, on Exeter Road and decide "This is awful" and that "something must be done". Of course they will.
I am sure they will not be tempted to fob Crediton off with an ineffective scheme like the Western Route.
Oh dear, perhaps they will...
Of course it is also possible that county councillors will find themselves liable under Health and Safety legislation for increasing harm to health. Or, maybe, even defending themselves in court against a "class action" because of their lack of action over the particulates in our bodies?
Robert Nicholls
27 Downeshead Lane
Crediton