I fully agree with Antonia Rayson (Friday’s Oxford Mail ViewPoints) about the plight of Crawley residents because of the heavy traffic through the village.
Drivers, like myself, who use the road every day, understand their problem. I have phoned the county council many times about the bottleneck of traffic.
The main problem is near the bridge, at the traffic lights on the Crawley side going towards Witney.
If you are at the front when the lights are on red and an articulated lorry is the first vehicle to approach you over the bridge, it is very difficult for that vehicle not to mount the pavement for fear of hitting your wing mirror.
Now if you have a scenario, which happens a lot, where there is a lorry waiting to cross when the lights change, there is no way to pass without mounting the pavement. If you know the road and keep close to the kerb, you might get away with it.
I have been in touch with the highways department to see if they could widen the kerbed area near the traffic lights.
I pointed out that vehicles, cars, vans, lorries, trailers, etc are a lot wider now than they were back in the 1960s.
Due to ever more traffic using this route through Crawley, it is more dangerous.
The problem is, we need the road to get to work, rather than go through Witney. Hope you get your bypass.
DAVID WILLIS, Colwell Drive, Witney
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