Catch us if you can

Another day, another achievement. Other cities may boast of extensions to the V&A, or a bypass, but here in Auld Reekie we can trump the lot.

Do they have most of the gravestones in their cemeteries lying broken and flattened by heavy industrial machinery?no?shameonthem,then.

Do they have streets riddled with potholes to act as a sort of driving Braille to let everyone know they are in Edinburgh by the percussive racket dished out to their cars? Not likely.

Some of us had hoped to splurge a few mill on a railway track which is actually in place already to take commuters around the city and in to the city centre. The council soon showed us the error of our ways by equalling the cost of the US Moonshot for a tram that supposedly travels in from the airport.

Now, however, we have the best achievement of the lot. It involves a requirement for the police to spend their time giving motorists tickets if they drive faster than 20mph. It means they will always be able to nail the culprit. Success!

It’s a real winner, as we get lots of free exhaust fumes and the city’s garages will get lots of business from repairing the cars which were not designed forthatsortofspeed.justthink of the economic spill-over.

Look on Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen and despair.

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive , Edinburgh