YORK has slipped into a dreadful state of chaos when it comes to traffic (mis) management.

There are no clever answers to the problems the city faces in the 21st century, only simple ones; remove all congestion-causing speed humps (they also delay emergency services vehicles), remove all empty bus lanes, remove all dangerous chicanes, stop reducing all speed limits to not much more than a crawl, spend a little more of the many millions paid by motorists in road taxes and dual the A1237. Only then will York move and prosper once again.

RJ McBroom,

Westpit Lane,

Strensall, York.

Updated: 12:08 Wednesday, October 22, 2003