Aren't motorists lovely? I refer to various letters moaning about traffic calming - the latest on Monday.
They always miss the point and never correctly define the problems, which are obvious.
1. Too much steel and glass in too small a space. Result, gridlock.
2. When space is available (which is rarely), too many motorists try to slam their accelerator pedal through the floor of the car.
Result: mangled bodies.
I read in a national broadsheet that although our road death statistics do compare reasonably well with Europe, we are somewhere near the top with the number of children our wonderfully self-disciplined motorists manage to kill and injure. This tells a story.
Here's the deal. I couldn't care less about your blasted shock absorbers, exhaust pipes, chassis plates, widgets or anything else.
If slowing a motorist down today means a child sees tomorrow, good!
I think that's probably checkmate.
Graham Horne,
Beech Avenue,
Bishopthorpe, York.
Updated: 10:14 Wednesday, September 04, 2002
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