A FEW years ago, I was going, on foot, for my usual "medicine" at my local.

I studied and deduced what the plans were at the junction of Blackburn Road and Moss Bank Way. Some tarmac had been ripped up and cones spaced about. On arrival at the local, I sat down with friends to confirm my fears, and they said it was to alter the lay-out of the road to ease traffic flow.

I left school at 14, in the 1940s, no qualifications, no great education, and yet I knew that traffic would double eventually. That road-widening exercise was a waste of money.

I said, on that first night, that only one solution was possible -- a fly-over. If one stands at Astley Bridge Park and looks to Crompton Way, it shows Blackburn Road is in a hollow, and it would not have been a very high fly-over, of course with exit slip roads.

Before some lettered engineers take another route and throw money away -- think, research the fly-over.

C F Tierney

Lytton Street

Bolton