A FEELING of deja-vu has come over me, for it seems the modifications to the A666 in Darwen have done nothing to calm residents, who have had Hyndburn's up-to-now-unique style of main road scheme imposed on them.

Darwen folk find themselves in the position Hyndburn residents were two or three years ago. Welcome aboard!

My advice to them is to fast forward the next two years of reasoned comment on the A666, and resort to ridicule. It still won't get the planners to change their minds, but it is more fun!

Adrian Shurmer's suggestion of draining the canal as a safety measure (Letters, May 19) has, it is rumoured, been taken up with gusto in Hyndburn.

Moves are afoot to build pinch points to slow the barges - only allowing narrow boats through. The thinking is that they have a smaller cross-sectional area at the pointed end, thus won't collide with the drowning swimmers. The more (allegedly) qualified planners are wrestling with the complexities of putting humps in water.

See what I mean? - altogether more fun!

J P DUCKWORTH, Bostons, Great Harwood.

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