I READ your item on the new traffic interference, sorry, I mean traffic management act, with amusement and alarm (September 29). Yet more local rules and regulations to allow the council to relieve the motorist of yet more money.

I am aware that road users should obey the Highway Code, unfortunately this is the real world. The Highway Code, as we all know, does not apply to everyone.

The parents who think Deangate is a private car park, for example, despite the double yellow lines and no waiting notices. Or, as your photo showed, the drivers who regularly obstruct box junctions, particularly on The Mount and the green taxi boxes which are found next to traffic lights often blocked by cyclists (guaranteed to wind up any car driver).

Who and how would the council administer these fixed penalty notices?

I have visions of quaking council officers running out into live traffic in an attempt to fix notices to moving vehicles.

Why, I wondered, had people who are overweight been included in traffic regulations? (Notices will be issued to people who break weight restrictions). Who will decide the appropriate weight? On what will this decision be based? "Fined £60, you're too fat."

On a serious note, I do hope the council will include motorists who obstruct cycle lanes and green boxes. Cycling on York's roads is already a risky occupation, no one deserves death or serious injury because of the selfishness, ignorance or stupidity of others.

Charlie Stone,

Millfield Road,

York.

Updated: 09:21 Wednesday, October 05, 2005