THE furore about charging motorists for the use of motorways and other major roads fails to address a serious knock-on effect.

Motorists who object to paying the tolls will, inevitably, use the alternative minor roads through the towns and villages which are bypassed by the toll roads, thus defeating the object of constructing the roads in the first place.

To combat the resultant congestion on the minor roads it will be necessary to introduce charges for the use of those routes, and so on ad infinitum until a charge is made every time the car leaves its own driveway.

You think I'm kidding?

Wait and see!

Keith Smith,

Brackenhills,

Upper Poppleton,

York.

Updated: 10:26 Thursday, March 07, 2002