UNFORTUNATELY, Nigel Nuttall (Letters, May 25), like the rest of the traffic-calming enthusiasts, totally misses the point.

I am not against traffic-calming in principle, only the methods used to implement it. Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent creating humps, chicanes, pavement-widening, mini roundabouts - in fact anything that will impede the free flow of traffic, speeding or not.

Surely, greater use of modern technology can be utilised in this day and age - cameras, radar traps and heavier fines, to target the really guilty ones, instead of creating obstacles which impede everyone and which cause increased exhaust pollution, inflicting serious and long-lasting damage to people's lungs.

We are now informed that there is not enough money for essential road repairs, that winter gritting will be curtailed, and there is not enough money to light stretches of motorway where, in just a few months, two tragic deaths have occurred.

And Mr Nuttall cannot understand my attitude?

KEVIN ELVEY, Sudell Road, Darwen.

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