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A meeting is being called with objectors to discuss road safety strategy on the A48 Pont Abraham to Cross Hands Road with Assembly Ministers and Carmarthenshire County Council representatives. The County Council’s Executive Board are looking to achieve the implementation of appropriate safety improvements on this stretch of trunk road and address the objectors concerns of the inconvenience of banning right turns and U-turns. They are inviting AM’s Rhodri Glyn Thomas and Helen Mary Jones to meet objectors with them before moving forward. The County Council has been asked and has started the process of making Traffic Orders to introduce the safety measures as they relate to roads which join the A48 between Pont Abraham and Cross Hands. To achieve the safety improvements on the road which is managed by the Trunk Roads Agency a number of Traffic Regulation Orders will have to be made which normally would be the preogative of the Assembly. The Assembly is seeking the co-operation of the cou...

A number of junction safety measures are being considered along the A48 from Pont Abraham to Carmarthen. This follows fatal accidents in recent years at the Cwmgwili Junction where consideration is being given to closure of some central reservations which will deny right turn movements and U-turns. The Welsh Assembly Government, their agents the South Wales Trunk Road Agency and their consultants, including Carmarthenshire County Council, wish to avoid a situation where one junction is treated in isolation. They are all concerned treating just one junction would move any problem and potential risks along to the next junction. For this reason the First Minister is seeking a holistic approach to the section from Pont Abraham to Cross Hands. All representations will be reported to the County Council’s executive board for consideration. The measures proposed require the making of Traffic Regulation Orders. The Assembly has asked the Authority to initiate the process of making these Orders....