The story appeared in Issue 973 on Friday, March 21.

The focus was on Crediton Link Road being back on schedule despite the bad weather.

The controversial road is expected to be finished by the Autumn and will join the A377 from the Wellparks roundabout by Tesco, to the Lord's Meadow Industrial Estate.

The Common Marsh Road area is to be remodelled and a roundabout and pedestrian crossing will be installed at Exhibition Road.

Funding has been provided by Devon County Council, the Department of Transport and Section 106 funding, which is still to be negotiated with Tesco as part of the agreement to build the Wellparks store.

The road has been designed to improve air quality to the Exeter Road area, reduce congestion, support economic development and improve HGV access to the industrial estate.

The general impression I got from the people I spoke to was that there was a worry over how much the road might be used, whether it would actually make any difference to the pollution levels and whether lorries would be able to stop at the Wellparks roundabout because of the steepness of the road. What do you think?

Please let me know. Contact me at 102 High Street, Crediton or email [email protected]">[email protected].

Readers are also invited to take part in the poll on the Courier website http://www.creditoncouriernewspaper.co.uk">www.creditoncouriernewspaper.co.uk.

What you told us...

My feelings are neutral. I think it would alleviate some of the traffic, but not all. It might stop lorries going through the one way system. We will see what happens when it opens - other by-pass projects tend to go right around a town to avoid it altogether. I don't think it will have any affect on businesses in the town.

Dan Webb

This has been going on for 40 years! I live off the A3072 and I do wonder what will happen to all the heavy traffic. Will it affect people wanting to go to the North Devon Link Road? What is the benefit? I wonder if it will ease the pollution in the High Street.

Cheriton Fitzpaine Resident

I don't think it will help a lot. What will happen to the big lorries, if they go around Barnstaple Cross and head towards the new road at Lord's Meadow they will have problems getting around the bottom of Jockey Hill where it is very narrow. I think it's a waste of money.

Mr Tucker, Crediton

I think the new road must help, although my daughter doesn't think it will.

Leading up to Lord's Meadow Industrial Estate it will help – won't it?

Crediton Resident

Online Poll

We asked our readers: Should the NHS database be a scheme where people opt in rather than opt out?

We left the poll for an extra week and at the time of going to press the results showed:

55.6% Yes – previous poll result 83.3%

44.4% No – previous poll result 16.7%

Nora Parminter