A Letter for possible insertion . Re - Rhodri Morgan Interview

Dear Rhodri,

With regards your Interview with The Evening Leader.
It's good to see that your heart plumbing is now flowing freely. Your arteries unclogged after your recent operation.

Perhaps it's only when you see unfairness that you turn to your politicians. Although initially indifferent to Welsh Government I now see huge advantages.
Cardiff being a lot closer than London and communication by email to all Welsh Assembly ministers and my excellent AM Carl Sargeant a few keyboard clicks away. As a regular recipient of my emails you are fully aware of the situation in Chester Rd, Penyffordd.

As you know we currently have the A494 on the operating table and Warren Hall A55 exit in the waiting room.


You mention North - South divides. We have a local North - South divide. Flintshire in the North, Wrexham in the South.
Wrexham have money in surplus and excellent creative traffic calming in their villages whilst Flintshire have no money and in Penyffordd we have no traffic calming. In many places in Flintshire we are fed up with unwanted traffic.

Our villages and towns are clogged up with traffic., Connah's Quay, Shotton and Hawarden. Penyffordd is not clogged up but as you know has 2000 speeders daily and is used as a race track by young people with noisy illegal exhausts. Northop Hall has a daily rat run similar but slower to Penyffordd.

A494 and Warren Hall A55 exit will release "more traffic and faster" to our unprotected communities which will give results that will be exactly opposite to that acheived with your heart operation. Our local roads have not been expanded as your small arteries have. The Super Highway and improved artery are going to put unbearable strain on our villages and towns

I feel there is justification for a one off payment by the WAG to be given to Flintshire County Council to restore our village environments. Our villages should be protected from outside traffic which must be forced to use By-Passes and A roads where available, compulsory 20mph village centres. Flintshire Highways to adopt the Wag's excellent Manual for Streets.

I would wish my AM Carl Sargeant to raise this important matter in The Welsh Assembly Government at the earliest opportunity.


Yours sincerely
Colin Hughes
Penyffordd District