REGARDING your article (LET, April 26) about the Grane Road between Blackburn and Haslingden, I agree with the measures proposed in your editorial -- to stop access to and from A56.
As an HGV driver for a large haulage company, I use the Grane Road daily as a short cut.
The signposting on the A56 and M65 directing the traffic to stay on the motorway will never work due to satellite navigation systems and the Auto Route. Signs are very rarely used by HGV drivers and if there is a short cut we will use it.
As I stopped at a lay-by on the Grane Road, I counted more than 700 wagons in just over one hour. Spare a thought for the residents of the Grane Road, which has been transformed from a B road to a national trunk road since the extension of the M65.
The reduction in accidents on the Grane Road in recent years is, in my opinion, down to two very mild winters.
The Lancashire Evening Telegraph's view is spot on. Close the slip roads on the A56.
J ORMEROD, Granville Road, Blackburn.
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