I SEEM to have upset at least two people very much, one of them said that it was difficult to understand. I originally wrote an article for the Times to publish but it was decided that it had to be a letter and should therefore be very much shorter. So what you have been given to read has been severely pruned. Nowhere did I say that I wanted Tavistock to be bypassed, in fact, having described a possible route for a bypass,  I said, in the summary: 'There does not seem to be much point in it.'  I did not mention the suggested new railway and station that was mentioned in this paper two or three years ago which, I believe, was going to connect with the existing Gunnislake line at Bere Alston, because I have no idea what is happening about it now. I sent my article to everyone I could think of who might have some interest and influence, finishing up with a copy going to the Secretary of State for Transport.  In a PS to that I added that there had been on the previous day on the BBC TV news, a piece about some scientists on the arctic ice flows measuring the thickness of the ice.  They had found that it was very much thinner than they expected which meant that global warming was accelerating and the sea levels were rising faster that had been previously expected. This must emphasise the dangers at Dawlish! The secretary sent me a friendly 'thank you' letter. Rodney Smith Lydford