I FEEL Shaun Thompson’s letter (Metro News, January 18) regarding Exmouth Road in Sale being used as a cut through to avoid Carrington Lane in the morning rush hour deserves a response.

If he observes the traffic using this cut through he will note the majority of them do not carry children as passengers, they are merely adults (myself included) trying to get to their workplaces without becoming tangled up in the many hordes of vehicles transporting lazy children to school.

I have no idea why he thinks there are high volumes of traffic using this road as very often there are only another two vehicles at the most on this road at the same time. The majority of traffic seems to appear from Plymouth Road and therefore only enters Exmouth Road at the end, before it joins Totnes Road.

I find it hard to believe that some of the drivers are speeding as Exmouth Road has speed bumps and unless one wants to wreck their car no one will speed.

It is also a winding road with cars parked both sides, sometimes making it impossible to see if there is a vehicle coming from the opposite direction, so it would be highly stupid of anyone to speed. While it is heartening that Mr Thompson is concerned for the safety of children walking to school, I can count on one FINGER the number of children I see walking down Exmouth Road in the mornings!

During school holidays commuters can sail straight down Carrington Lane and Manor Avenue in a matter of seconds.

I suggest the solution is not for Trafford Council to fit a traffic counter on Exmouth Road but to change the school hours so that all children must be at school by 8am and therefore reducing the amount of rush-hour traffic by at least 75 per cent.

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