The Bicester Christmas festivities concluded with the traditional fare of traffic chaos (Oxford Mail, December 28 and 30; and January 5).

Again we have had to witness the Bicester version of trying to pass a camel through the eye of a needle.

The word “traditional” suggests to most people a recurring event, which in this case is a major inconvenience for the travelling public, both Bicester residents and those who trying to make their way through the town.

I am writing, of course, about the traffic gridlock around the “albatross” that hangs round this town’s neck every high day and bank holiday – Bicester Village.

And, as a recurring event, one might think urban planners would notice it; but no, Bicester Village continues to expand, even brushing the mighty Tesco aside.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to realise that if you want to store a lot of water in a big pot, to fill that pot quickly, it should have a large neck.

A road can be likened to a river course and traffic density to a volume of water.

If you restrict the flow of the “river”, the volume of water upstream will overflow the riverbank.

Likewise, a road pinch-point (such as the only access road to both our town superstore and Bicester Village) will quickly bring the flow of traffic to gridlock.

Traffic congestion around Bicester Village has worsened with each phase of the centre’s expansion.

No matter how many car parking spaces the shopping precinct provides as it continues to expand, there will be little improvement in traffic congestion until access to that site has been significantly improved.

Additional access routes must be provided, before the completion of the Bicester South West development means that several thousand more Bicester residents are trapped inside their new homes every bank holiday.

Perhaps the solution is to sack those officials and others who have allowed this situation to arise and hand the problem over to the BBC’s Blue Peter programme.

They have a proven record of galvanising children into action and solving problems.

After all, most of us came across my allegory of water and overflow while pupils at infant school.

It’s not rocket science.

JE Dennis Barry Avenue Bicester