SINCE the invention of the wheel, humans have been attempting to find the best way that this spherical object should serve the world to the benefit of the human race.

On the one hand we have the average person in the street, who just wants the wheel to provide an easier world.

Then on the other hand we have the scientists and engineers who wish to make the wheel move things faster and faster, regardless of the cost to the environment and human alike.

In the past, the political view has always been that we must build more roads to accommodate the increase in vehicles.

The implementation of this view has always been met with an ever increasing number of vehicles, to fill to overflowing the ever increasing number of roads and then pollute the air that humans have to inhale.

And now we have the invention of Professor Tony May (The Press, October 13).

Professor May’s first attempt is to give priority in certain places to the pedestrian.

A very good idea, but this has some fundamental flaws.

Giving pedestrians more time to cross the road in limited places does not stop or reduce the number of vehicles coming into the city.

Professor May’s challenge must be too manage the number of vehicles entering the city and juggle this problem in an effort to make life easier for the pedestrian and other road users, to reduce the air pollution in the city.

If he can solve this problem, he will be acclaimed as a hero not only in York, but the world over.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York