I READ with interest Cllr Mike Parsons crusade to introduce a 'give way system on the road at Lewin Street Middlewich'.

Middlewich, like it or not, is a prisoner of its past. You cannot get into or out of Middlewich without going under or over a canal/aquaduct or railway bridge. Limitations on weight and height dictate were 40 tonne wagons can and cannot go.

Historically the road system was the last on the scene after canals and railways and the bottleneck at Lewin Street epitomises the lack of vision when the road system was built. Trying to put 21st century traffic on a 19th century road is no mean feat but a give way system is not the answer.

Middlewich has boomed with housing estates over the last decade, increasing traffic. These very same councillors propose a waste processing plant at Cledford Lane that will introduce 1,000 plus extra wagons per week thundering up Lewin Street and they want to restrict a known bottleneck more, it’s madness.

The road works well with normal cars, vans, motorcycles and cyclists and it is only when two huge wagons try to get through the gap and they won’t give way to each other that they mount the pavement.

Broken pavements, broken pub cellar doors and all the mayhem it has caused for the long suffering people of Middlewich for months now, with no end in sight. A railway station and by-pass would help commuters. A more sensible system would be to raise the kerb on both sides of the road so wagons cannot mount the pavement.

It also has to be considered that several times in the winter Booth Lane, Lewin Street and Lead Smithy Street effectively becomes the M6 when there is a pile up on that motorway. Motorists try to evade the pile up and Middlewich, Sandbach and Holmes Chapel become gridlocked. This happens with monotonous regularity.

Another consideration to keep the traffic flowing would be to put a green left filter on the traffic lights at St Michael’s Church exiting Lead Smithy Street A533 to the A54.

I sit there many a time in frustration wanting to turn left to Winsford, there is no other traffic going there because the light sequence does not have a left filter.

I hope these points for consideration fall favourably on the long suffering people of Middlewich and the horrendous road system.

Michael J Mahon Middlewich