Letter: Life in the slow lane

Sir: What a welcome letter is Mervyn Curran's, urging a 20mph urban speed limit. The present 30mph plainly ignores the effects it has had on pedestrians and cyclists.

Moreover, so often it is treated as both maximum and minimum, especially by driving instructors and driving test examiners, who constantly urge their pupils to "make progress", ie not loiter at a safer 20mph but keep up to the 30mph limit.

What chance has a child to walk to or from school? We have denied children the simple right to walk about their own towns. Roll on 20mph asap.

J J PUTNAM

Totnes, Devon