RE "Bid to cut country lane traffic" (Bolton Evening News, Tuesday, November 15). "Action could be taken to stop heavy lorries using a quiet country lane. Blackrod town council has voted to support a move to bring in chicanes and a weight restriction on Crown Lane and Station Road."

I thought, when I first read the banner headline, that it was going to be Platt Lane, Westhoughton, that the proposal was for. That would be the obvious choice.

The number of 40-foot articulated lorries using that road as a cut-through to the M61 is quite out of proportion to the road size and capacity and the junction with Park Road is also far from safe in the mornings.

If two lorries meet down Platt Lane, as often happens, they both have to stop and go up the embankments and verges to pass. The practise is certainly not safe, destroys the roadside kerbing, and causes drainage problems where the tyres cut into the soft ground.

Considering Wigan MBC are in the process of building a trading estate at the bottom of Platt Lane, the problem is only going to get worse.

Moreover, a moment's inattentiveness by either a lorry or a car behind and someone may be killed either down the lane or at the Park Road junction.

Could I suggest that Bolton MBC implement and enforce a weight limit and width restriction on Platt Lane at both ends to stop its use by very large vehicles before such an incident occurs.

I am sure the residents in the area would agree with me that proactive action now is better than another road traffic obituary and another heartbroken family.

Ainslie Casson

Church Walks

Westhoughton