I SEE that Ledbury’s Knapp Lane is back on the agenda again, and that Herefordshire’s lead engineer, Mr Lee- Jones, says that “something must be done”, though he fails to say why.

I am not a resident of Knapp Lane or the surrounding roads, and my only interest is as someone who regularly uses the road as a short cut when travelling from Ledbury to Malvern or Worcester.

If something has to be done, then the approach proposed by Mr Lee-Jones must be just about the worst possible solution, and simply beggars belief.

To leave the Worcester Road end of Knapp Lane “open” will encourage traffic to use the lane, but then to expect them to turn sharp left when halfway down an extremely steep hill is to invite trouble.

That turn is nasty and dangerous, whilst it can be confidently predicted that many motorists will either not see the “No Entry” signs, or will take a chance and ignore the signs for the sake of that “inviting”

few hundred yards.

If something must be done, either close the road at its junction with The Homend, or make it one-way down the hill, not up it.

BRIAN HUDSON
Ledbury