Now that the county council has passed the application for 20 lorries to pass down Bayswater Road in Barton every day for 10 years, to and from the old Woodeaton Quarry, the subject of the speed humps crops up again.

There’s an easy answer to this: take up the humps and put a speed camera halfway up the hill, with a 20mph limit.

Then it will be quiet for the residents and will also show that the council has respect for the thousands of people going to their last resting place – namely the crematorium.

The council says the humps are traffic-calming. But they should try living next to them, and they would soon change their way of thinking.

Van Coulter, one of our city councillors, agrees it is noisy along this road.

So why won’t the county council listen to councillors and residents? Perhaps because they are all right, Jack.

P HOWARD (Mr), Brome Place, Barton, Oxford