AS a frequent user of Golden Hill with a slow moving vehicle - a mobile crane - I have witnessed first-hand several dangerous incidents there while travelling in either direction. These have been caused mainly by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and light vans.
Problems arise at the end of Malton by-pass where three lanes merge into one, head around the corner west-bound, then re-emerge into two lanes. Vehicles then set off hell-for-leather to beat anything slower up the hill.
The A64 is, as a major trunk road to the east coast, often criticised and in places can only be described as barely adequate.
But the proposed closure of the crawler lane on Golden Hill is ill-judged because it is often a bottle-neck in summer months, and may only force riskier overtaking further west bound.
An immediate improvement, with negligible cost, would be to ban all HGVs from overtaking there, with a future view to widen the bottom of Golden Hill, to allow continuous overtaking from the bypass.
But planners, please improve it, don't make it worse.
B Clemmit,
Owston Avenue, York.
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