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The government should pay for Towcester bypass
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AS A RESIDENT of the historic town of Towcester I read with interest your report on the proposed 'link road' around the town (CM 12 April).
watch the snarl-up of heavy traffic on the AS passing through the town centre daily. Towcester has long campaigned for a bypass but the developers of the 3,000 houses will not fund a proper bypass.
The government should pay for the bypass as a completely separate issue. I know,! know— the Highways Agency "doesn't have the funding to pay for it".
In the same issue,people are invited to have their say on widening 15 miles of the M1 with improvements to Junctions 11,12, and 13. During these extensive roadworks, how much of the traffic will choose to use the A5, or the A43 en route for the M40 throughTowcester?
Is it not possible that joint planning and thinking could show the sense of using some of the M1 funding to first ensure Towcester has a proper bypass which would help provide a decent alternative route lousing the Ml?
Incidentally, at peak times there are horrendous delays where the A43 and A5 cross just north of Towcester. It is difficult to believe that adding AS traffic to the A43 (as proposed with the new development — albeit for only a couple of miles) will be tenable whether the vehicles come off a 'bypass' or a 'relief road', whatever type of j unction is used.
Meanwhile Towcester's residents and historic buildings suffer.