I would like to respond to your article in the Mercury newspaper regarding what EDF said about their decision not to build a northern bypass in Bridgwater.

As a resident of Cannington, I feel the bypass they are building at the moment is a complete waste of money, as it is going to make the journey to Bridgwater so much harder in the future as nothing has been done to the road system once you have passed the roundabout in Cannington. The A39 is getting more and more congested already and Hinkley Point has not yet started building the power station. There has not been any improvements to the road system from Bridgwater to Cannington, so if there was any sort of incident there will always be mayhem.

As councillor Ian Dyer said EDF and the council authorities have missed out on a great chance to get things right. The road could have come from the roundabout at Dunball and saved all that traffic going through Bridgwater. If they had built a northern bypass they could have built a rail link as well which could of conveyed workers and taken the flask from the site instead of transporting them into Bridgwater.

This then would of allayed fears of contaminated leaks from the flask for local residents and the nearby school. All the work that has been undertaken already is just cosmetic it has and will not make things better. Why oh why did the powers to be not listen to the people who use these roads day in day out.

I fear that once EDF start building our troubles are just beginning.

Barry Lukins