Madam, – Roger Wormald’s reasoning (Letters, April 17th) begins with an overly-simplistic assertion and can’t help but go downhill from there. “The slower the speed, the longer the journey time” may apply on a grand prix circuit, but not on a complex arrangement of intersecting roads where traffic moves in both directions. It’s time the Irish took on a little responsibility in this regard, and stopped trying to justify their driving like circus chimps on steroids.
– Yours etc,
Major DONALD ASTUN (Ret) Castleknock, Dublin 15.
Madam, – Roger Wormald’s somewhat simplistic analysis on slower speed causing more frustration is fundamentally flawed (Letters, April 17th). Leaving aside the brutal reality that speed kills, the simple fact is that slower traffic actually reduces the potential for traffic congestion. The paralysis of the road network in the UK is caused in the main by motorists ignoring the speed limits and hurtling down the motorway at excess speed. The consequences? Gridlock.
– Yours, etc,
Madam, – The faster the speed, the more accidents and the bigger the mess.
– Yours, etc,