Blame the Roads, Not Drivers
Page 50
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
ON page 402 of your issue dated May 8 I noted a paragraph headed "Action Against Drivers," in which it is stated that the Smethwick police are to take special measures against drivers who leave their vehicles outside cafés on main roads.
The most amusing thing to me in connection with this announcement is that, unless one knew the route signs, one would never dream that there were any main roads within miles of Smethwick, with the possible exception of the Wolverhampton ring road A4108, so bad is the general state of the roads and their layout.
I am of the opinion that police officials, who are actually public servants, could serve the public best by drawing the attention of the Government to the state of congestion which undoubtedly exists in all sections of the country where a blind eye has been turned to the evolution of road transport. This would be mote in keeping with a realistic con-ception of the facts than to institute a purge of vehicle drivers, whose employers pay through the eyes and nose to have these affairs set right.
DEREK MOORE-HEPPLESTON.
Manager, Messrs. Peel's Tours: Maltby, Rotherham.