Hysteria over a traffic incident

Sir, – Well did you ever hear the likes, the Scottish media in full SNP in Crisis mode over the Queensferry Crossing – 1.7 miles of road subject to partial lane closures for five days, traffic diverted on to a similar road bridge only yards away, with the traffic ending up at the same place with little or no disruption to drivers?

On BBC Good Morning Scotland, Gary Robertson treated this minor road incident as if the new bridge had collapsed into the River Forth. Three separate, lengthy interviews with politicians about it.

Jamie Greene of the Tory Party, although not sure if the bridge was devolved or not, described being rerouted from one bridge to another one right next to it, as road users having their daily lives thrown into disarray.

And Wee Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems went totally over the top, suggesting that the work amounted to the bridge being two years late.

The tabloids went into overdrive, with banner “crisis” headlines.

By afternoon this

nonsense had been overtaken by some real traffic news – snow had brought traffic chaos to the roads in Scotland, closing roads, causing delays and not a few accidents.

I have no idea how many roads had roadworks on St Andrew’s Day (November 30) – or any other day of the year for that matter – but is it not about time the political parties in opposition stopped peddling this nonsense and got on with their day job – getting us out of the mess the Tories in Westminster have put us in? Walter Hamilton. Flat 3 City Park, City Road, St Andrews.