Nothing ‘green’ about the 20mph speed blitz
The proposal to lower speed limits to 20mph in every town and city in Scotland (Mail) is not going to help achieve the target of lowering pollution levels.
As any fool knows, the slower you drive the higher the pollution.
JIM SUTHERLAND, Thurso, Caithness. DeSPITe being unenforceable, the anti-car lobby at holyrood seem determined to make us all drive at 20mph in built-up areas.
Many of us in edinburgh and on the M8 would welcome the chance to get as high as 20mph but, in all seriouness, this is dressed up as a road-safety and pollution issue.
There is scant evidence that blanket 20mph zones save lives. They should be reserved for streets near schools and hospitals.
BRIAN FERGUSON, Edinburgh. NeW 20mph zones (Mail) won’t stop the boy racers. They won’t stop white van man – the worst drivers on the roads. (No wonder Richard Littlejohn calls them ‘suicide jockeys’.)
Instead, what’s needed is more traffic cops capable of catching the speeders, the tailgaters, the middle-lane sloths, the V-sign flashers, the under-takers, the mobile phone users, the red-light jumpers, the lane-drifting lorry drivers... S. RAMSEY, Falkirk, Stirlingshire RATheR than being about road safety, the proposed 20mph limit seems more to do with a return to the war on motorists and an attempt to make sure every driver has penalty points.
KATY REID, Glasgow. The only police available to enforce new 20mph limits will be those cardboard cut-out ones! HELEN CUMMINGS, Glasgow.