Stress! Just take a bike journey from Templars Square at Cowley, Oxford, to Magdalen Road - cars zoom along like they are at Brands Hatch.

On certain stretches of roads, it seems the norm for them to go as fast as they can, missing you by inches.

The top of Morrell Avenue is the same, up to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, even at times when people are going to school at Cheney.

Iffley Road is the same. It's the norm to speed and make life uncomfortable.

Is it a British disease that we have to rush everywhere?

There should be councillors attached to these areas I've mentioned and they should raise the matter.

In Headley Way, near the John Radcliffe Hospital, there are two big daubings of paint on the road saying SLOW, but no notice is taken from what I see.

We're in a mad world: rush, rush, rush!

ROBIN SPOKES Bath Street St Clement's Oxford