Scrap road tolls and put meters in vehicles

THE way to prevent traffic rat-running to avoid paying tolls at the Watergrasshill bypass is to adopt the means used by most other countries.

This is to discourage all traffic except local traffic by road closures, one-way systems, width restrictions, traffic humps, chicanes, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, speed restrictions, pinch-points and so on.

But this is not going to happen here because of the obsession with maximising traffic speed and volume without regard to costs and consequences.