THE lead article in Wednesday's Bolton Evening News regarding the alterations to Beaumont Road took my mind back 40 years when, as an excited child of seven, I urged my father to go faster along said highway, as I found the burr of the tyres passing over the cobbles wonderful. "Wait until it's your suspension that's being hammered" came the terse reply.

A few years later, the developer of Ladybridge took the council to the House of Lords to force them to tarmacadam a perfectly good road -- I believe at a cost of £150,000, at late 1960's prices.

At the same time, the connection between Ladybridge and Beaumont Road was moved from the crest of the ridge where oncoming traffic was easily visible on both sides, creating a dangerous blind spot now controlled with a double system of traffic lights.

Has the council taken into consideration the comparative costs of returning Beaumont Road to what it was, with it's built-in, and effective calming effect on the heavy footed?

R A Pearce

Hawthorne Road

Deane

Bolton