WITH reference to the letters last week relating to traffic and pedestrians. The person representing Friends Of The Earth spouted the usual mantra against cars and motorists in answering a previous letter, but completely ignored the valid point that was being made regarding speed limits and other traffic calming measures in the vicinity of schools.

They are there 24 hours a day 365 days a year, when they are only necessary for seven per cent of that time.

Why should the motorist be inconvenienced for the other 93 per cent?

Furthermore, if you drive near any of the primary schools in Calne when the little darlings are being dropped off or collected, it is impossible to travel at more than walking pace due to the concentration of traffic.

Therefore the imposition of a speed limit which no-one could attain is pointless.

A teacher from St Mary's School complained about the danger of walking from the school along Curzon Street to the town centre.

While it is inexcusable that she was struck by a vehicle while walking on the narrow pavement, the solution is simple. If she continues to walk along the A4 to the now pedestrianised High Street and thus into the town centre she will avoid the dangerous area.

Drivers often have to detour to avoid pedestrian areas, surely it is not too much to ask a pedestrian to use a safer, if longer route in this case.

A K Hill

Ebor Paddock, Calne