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RAIL ROADS • I was interested in your feature headlined
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"The Spetisbury Affair" (CM 23-29 November), where it states that to build a road on top of a disused railway above a village is unacceptable to locals. This seems very strange, as railway traffic must have made some noise in the days when its railway was still in use.
Surely a new road could be built in its place as has happened at Blackpool, where the central railway link road enables traffic from the M55 motorway to travel directly to the town centre, where a car park for 6,000 vehicles has been built on the old railway sidings.
In the West Country the North Devon link road from South Molton to Barnstaple was the track of the old singletrack railway; the Yeovil link road to the A303 makes use of double-track line.
We could be solving transport problems all over the country by converting railways into roads, as most of the railway system is little-used or derelict, while our antiquated road network tries to cope with 90% of Britain's traffic. A I Watkinson, Otley Road, Harrogate, N Yorks.