Speedinglessofasafety issuethancongestion

Go-slow zones were recently introduced across 60 Perth streets.

Twenty-mile-per-hour speed limit signs have sprung up like mushrooms after a shower - all in the interests of pedestrian and cyclist safety.

Congestion is the principal threat to health and safety.

Slowing traffic down even further will just make the accumulation of harmful fumes from exhausts even worse and do little to increase public safety.

Television programmes such as Traffic Police and Police Interceptors highlight the enormous number of vehicles on our roads which should not be there, usually for want of road tax, MOT and/or insurance.

To take the few drivers who are caught off the road often involves great danger to police, public and the offenders themselves.

Why do police wait until such illegal vehicles are actually being driven on our roads?

A far more efficient way of removing offenders’ vehicles from our streets would be for police to check on vehicles parked at the kerbside overnight.

Cars whose owners are breaking the law with regard to them could be towed away, the owners dealt with and the vehicles later destroyed, if appropriate.

Far more vehicles could be removed in this way from our roads, thus relieving congestion and the need for more and more traffic restrictions.

There would be no danger to life and limb with car chases through our city streets.

It would also help to cut down on the growing number of cyclists breaking road-safety laws if all cyclists had to license and insure their bikes and display registration plates.

It’s the offenders in all spheres we should be after, not either law-abiding motorists or their cyclist equivalent George K McMillan

Mount Tabor Avenue, Perth