NICE ONE, CECIL • How very unkind of you to
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deride the Department of Transport's plan for narrower lanes on the motorways when it is clear that a great deal of Ministerial thought has gone into this far-sighted scheme.
A survey of cars entering London during the rail strikes showed that the vast majority contained only one person — the driver. Who needs a passenger seat next to the driver? Let us have narrower cars for the narrower traffic lanes. If there has to be a passenger, he or she can sit behind the driver, pillion fashion.
All drivers stuck in traffic jams envy the motorcyclist's ability to beat the hold-ups by weaving in and out of the stationary larger vehicles. With our new narrow cars we shall all be able to weave in and out of each other too, and the traffic jams will have been abolished. At a stroke, as they used to say.
And what an opportunity for our vehicle manufacturers to re-tool and produce the world's first narrow vehicles. Cars which can pass each other in the Devon lanes; safer double parking; vans to deliver newspapers open and ready to read; Playboy spreads with no creases. Sir Cecil in the New Year honours, surely? Anthony Snodgrass, Oxon.