I FULLY agree with the decision to ban HGVs from Grane Road.

It should not, though, be at the expense of residents on other equally unsuitable roads.

I live on Haslingden Old Road, a road even more accident prone and unsuitable for HGVs than the Grane Road and I have seen a vast increase in lorries and vans over the last few years.

Are we now to see a backwater B road become even more congested than it already is by shifting traffic from the Grane Road?

It is not very clever to appease one set of residents at the expense of other even worse affected ones.

Before the M65 was built I can remember a massive campaign from all the road hauliers for the motorway.

At the time they all claimed the existing roads were totally unsuitable for heavy lorries.

Well now they have the motorway links but for some reason they are abusing roads like the Grane and Haslingden Old Road, using them as short cuts to save a few minutes or a couple of pence worth of diesel, while not only doing massive damage to these unsuitable roads these lorries are also a danger to the residents.

Yes, do impose a weight limit on the Grane Road, but also give us the same courtesy on Haslingden Old Road.

The lorries have their motorways. Make them use them.

R ROBINSON, Bank Lane, Blackburn.