MY frustration at being immersed in one of York's traffic jams the other day actually took a turn for the manic.
I quivered a smile which erupted into a guffaw. What caused my hilarity was recalling your headline of Friday June 27: 'York roads are getting safer and less congested'.
Earlier I had seen two buses, three cars and numerous bikes jump red lights and two pedestrians nearly getting run over. And here I was firmly stuck in traffic!
Which part of fairy land do the council statisticians come from?
What was a chilling fact, however, was that the city's death rate or serious injury level had dropped from 139 to 116. That is unacceptable in a safe society which we claim to live in.
Phil Shepherdson,
Chantry Close,
Woodthorpe, York.
Updated: 10:28 Monday, June 30, 2003
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