IN your recent articles on the proposals for Darlington Northern Link Road local councillors were quoting the number of jobs that would be created as 25,000.

Whilst any new job is a good one, I fail to see how a new road can create that volume of jobs and no explanation has been provided.

Perhaps the council and Tees Valley Mayor are using the ‘jobs all for all’ argument to mask the real motive behind the road which is to enable the development of vast areas of green belt land north of the town.

This in turn will lead to much higher volumes of traffic in the existing roads.

Darlington residents will end up as three time losers - no countryside - more traffic and no sign of the phantom jobs promised.

David Porterfield, Darlington