In reference to the recent letter from Alan Rowley "Why not target lawbreaking pedestrians" (Readers' Letters, October 4), I think Mr Rowley is living in another country (the US).

While I agree some, not all, pedestrians are a menace, it is not against the law to cross the road wherever and whenever you please, and it is certainly not against the law to cross while the red man is showing.

What a ridiculous letter from another of York's moaners - does he drink with Aled Jones? Have they nothing better to do than make up farcical new laws and bemoan every little aspect of everyday life, something we all have to live with?

Whatever next - welly wearers in non-wet weather being incarcerated or perhaps we should all cross somewhere else and leave the pelicans to use their own crossings Pat Gaughan, Kingsway West, Acomb, York.