I agree with Adrian Shurmer's remarks (Letters, October 9) against road bumps, etc. to control speeding cars.

On top of what he says, a number of people, including my wife who has a severe back problem, will not use public transport with speed humps on their routes.

London Road in Blackburn is one and, of all places, Lancaster University, which is supposed to extol the virtues of "education, education, education."

Over the years, a lot of research has gone into making transport more comfortable and improving roads and, yet, traffic-calming measures hit the most vulnerable - the inform and the elderly.

LEN RUSHTON, Bowland House, Larkhill, Blackburn.

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