Traffic Control

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 12

Traffic Control

Sir, —“Ham” cannot see why traffic control should not be under the police. One good reason, sufficient by itself, is that the police have their hands full and should not be distracted from their main task of dealing with crime. Admittedly, some traffic offences are in the nature of crime but 90 per cent are simply infractions of administrative rules. Again, admittedly, these are necessary rules which must be enforced for the convenience of the public but the decline in public estimation of the London “Bobby” to which a correspondent recently drew attention is a warning against burdening the police with the ungrateful task of “interfering” with the ordinary citizen’s God-given right to do as he pleases in and with his motorcar. As for the supposed disadvantages of divided control, every county in Britain has its own separate police force; and in total they make a pretty good job of controlling traffic. —Yours, etc., LET WELL ALONE December 30, 1965. Fly Nuisance

Sir, —To trap flies, a fairly deep basin or steep-sided bowl containing water in which the cat’s or dog’s meal of meat has been cooked should be left out of doors. It will attract flies to their death astoundingly. They drown in the drink. Horrible! But what else can be done to ameliorate the grass-clippers’ activities? —Yours, etc., TRY IT December 28, 1965.