IN response to your article '£40 million a dream for the future,' (LET, September 26), any proposed action plan to develop further Blackburn town centre and the immediate areas around the town have to be applauded.
However, the road infrastructure needs to be in place if the town centre plan is to succeed.
Common sense tells us the roads today cannot cope. Therefore, a proposed low-cost solution for a new system allowing the existing roads to take the strain will not alleviate the constant traffic snarl-up.
Your report states that it is highly unlikely government cash will be found for the long-awaited inner relief road. Well, it must be found.
Like the lobbying by all within the borough for the M65 extension, it is the turn of those same voices to now rush for a completion of the inner relief road. Otherwise Blackburn will continue to undervalue the potential of the town and future development.
D NEILD (Mr), Observatory Road, Blackburn.
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