Moves to make roads safer for schoolchildren by implementing 20mph zones around the town's schools are to be applauded.
All too often people break the speed limit while travelling around the town and you do not have to be travelling very fast to cause someone serious injury in a collision.
Of course, £500,000 set aside in the council's budget is not a small amount of money and some people may be thinking that this is the sort of thing the 15 per cent increase in council tax will be funding, but which is not absolutely necessary.
Yet as MP Julia Drown rightly points out, we should not be waiting for an accident to happen before taking action, and speed bumps will force motorists to comply.
It is not too high a price to pay for children's safety.
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