Pass masters

and the tailgating of the few who do obey the limit. If you obey a 20mph limit, you will almost certainly either have someone driving in your boot or you will be unceremoniously overtaken, not necessarily safely.

Alastair Browne

When drivers are not doing 20 they are chancing it at 30. And 30 is better than 40.

Robert Farrell

If the average motorist who whines about 20mph zones actually tried cycling or walking about our city they would see how beneficial this would be for everyone. I’m a motorist (love my car) but I also cycle and walk very regularly and when the initiative started, and most people were obeying the limits, I saw an immediate and massive improvement in my environment when I was trying to get around the city by bike or on foot. We are now almost back to square one a few years later..

Dunnomuch Edinburgh Council leaders are investigating giving out free bus passes to people on low incomes in a bid to support 80,000 residents living in poverty.

It may sound like a good idea, but it will open the door to every kind of fiddle. You’ll get lots of people pleading poverty in order to get free travel. This surely has to be a non-starter.

Steven Oliver

Try making it difficult for short-term occupancy of flats and houses, for example Airbnb owners. Bring residents back to the city with affordable housing.

Philip Taylor

What about us that are barely making it on the living wage? A line has to be drawn on the free hand outs that some people get while others get not a bit of help.

Lorraine Blyth Stop the subsidies.

John J Radford