AS reported in the Falmouth/Penryn Packet a pedestrian way across the A39 between Mabe and Kernick Road is needed. However, is a flat, toucan crossing on a busy by-pass and adjacent to a bustling roundabout and appropriate response to the problem?

Surely a footbridge with accompanying ramped approaches is the twenty-first, or ever latter part of the twentieth century solution, avoiding the possible safety hazards arising from potential resultant traffic chaos, as well as not infringing desired parameters for a by-pass.

It may be noted that the “section 106” payment in respect of the development by Treliever Cross was approaching half a million pounds, adding an approximate average of five thousand pounds to each dwelling. Also that the annual council tax catchment will obviously be enhanced by these new homes; now we are being told the UK has come out of the recession is a footbridge in this traffic sensitive location really out of the question?

David Curtis, Mount Stephens Lane, Falmouth.