When are the powers-that-be responsible for traffic management in this city going to realise their hare–brained ideas are doing more harm than good?

Their latest project around The Slade, Old Road, Dene Road area is neither wanted nor needed, as reported in your newspaper recently. What they seem to fail to realise is that by narrowing roads and putting raised junctions in, they are actually causing more congestion, resulting in increased emissions being released into the atmosphere.

The council’s last project in the centre of Headington promised to enhance the flow of traffic through the area. I wonder if someone from the council can explain how filling in the subway and installing a new zebra crossing and three new sets of traffic lights, all designed to slow traffic down, can possibly achieve this. I honestly feel that the council’s agenda is to make driving so difficult in Oxford that motorists will eventually give up their cars in favour of other transport.

Sadly they are deluded as this will never happen, although it is tough when faced with an authority that is so anti-motorist that it’s main priority is so obviously geared towards cyclists, pedestrians and buses.

DAVID GREEN, Girdlestone Road, Headington, Oxford