Sir,

As an owner of a static caravan on Kiln Park for more than 11 years, and a regular visitor to Tenby (six months average per year), I am amazed that the problem with speeding cars on Marsh Road has been allowed to continue for so long.. or am I?

I live in Newport, Gwent, on a large housing estate with an equally large High School situated on the approach road. The road continues throughout the estate for approximately three miles, and we solved all the problems of speeding throughout the estate by the use of appropriately placed speed bumps. A simple, cheap solution which ensures that the 30 mph limit cannot be exceeded.

But, the question that Tenby has to ask is whether safety is the priority issue on Marsh Road? The positioning of mobile speed camera vans on the road during the holiday season must bring in a considerable income from the holidaymaker particularly, yet such vans are conspicuously absent during the evenings, and nights when the noise from speeding cars along that road can be heard throughout Kiln Park. May I suggest that Marsh Road is only one of several roads throughout Tenby where speeding cars race at night and it is the locals who are the main cause of this problem.

So I suggest to Mrs. Baker, and any other concerned residents of the town, that they petition their local councillors and county councillors to find out why such a simple solution has not been considered or tried.

When I asked the local police why the speed vans were only on Marsh Road at certain times, the reply was that the road was only a dangerous one during school hours, yet the van turns up regularly throughout the school holidays and other times when the school is shut! I rest my case!

Barbara Anthony,

Newport, Gwent,

and Kiln Park,

Tenby.