With regard to Jean Robinson's letter (July 12, 'Crossing is not required') I, too, was flabbergasted to see the new crossing appear on Burton Road at Kendal.

If fact, on a recent journey from Oxenholme through town to the Morrisons petrol station - a journey of around 3.7 miles - my average speed was down to 13.9mph.

This was a result of negotiating seven sets of traffic lights, ten pelican crossings, three Zebra crossings and three roundabouts.

Given that the Lake District now has World Heritage Site status, and one of the aims must surely be 'clean air', isn’t it time that South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria County Council reviewed the traffic management and flow of traffic through Kendal?

It's a well-known fact that standing traffic is more polluting than moving traffic, so we can have clear air on the hill tops, but come to Kendal and you may as well be in a large city.

Do we really need all these traffic lights and pelican crossings? If the authorities really want to reduce the average speed through the town centre, why not do as they do in Holland, and remove all traffic furniture and lights and make people think?

Steve Paton

Oxenholme