MANY of the criticisms of council policy made by John Miller ("Is York anti-car", November 1) are not a consequence of traffic calming, but of some motorists' responses to it.
Accelerating between humps, using traffic-calmed routes in preference to slightly longer or more congested routes, leaving engines running in snarled up traffic can all be avoided with a little patience and consideration.
We could save the country a fortune, do away with speed humps and significantly cut pedestrian accidents if we could enforce 20mph limits in residential areas off the main trunk roads, as they appear to be able to do in many other European countries.
Many of the disadvantages referred to by John Miller would disappear, walking and cycling would be safer and the time advantage of going in the car that much less.
For this reason I support the 'bus boarder' in Fulford Road if it means creating clear road space to ease the flow when the bus sets off, rather than pushing the bus further back in the line of cars carrying just the driver as used to happen.
Broadway West, York.
Updated: 11:32 Wednesday, November 13, 2002
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