A wonderful world without cars

ALL cars have been removed from our estate for a few days because access is blocked while men work on the sewer pipes at the entrance.

It was amazing. To look out and see no cars at all was so strange. No fumes, noise, and eyesores. There was just grass, sky, silence, peace and safety. It was like another world. Then this afternoon the children who go to the private nursery on the estate ran out into the road in a burst of colour and energy and danced and spun round. It was as if people came to life. There was laughter, conversation, relaxation. Life without cars must have been so, so good. I know now, after today, that cars are a great stress and a great threat in our lives.

We would be healthier, happier, and safer without them. Public transport would have to get the funding it needs and perhaps instances of lung disease and cancers would fall as, most certainly, would deaths from road crashes.

The only four wheels allowed in the country should be on emergency vehicles and then maybe we might learn to live again and play and walk and communicate with each other and like the small children who ran all around without a care.

Jacqueline Cotter

Gortnaclohy Heights

Skibbereen

West Cork