Re: ‘State highways torture for too many too long’ (The Weekend Sun, May 10).

Margaret Murray Benge hasn’t much hope of free traffic flows. In the beginning only one person in a hundred had a car. Then there was the family car one per household, now mum and dad have a car and the children have cars. Some households have four or five cars. It’s the sheer number that is the problem, it won’t matter how many millions the Government spend on roads it won’t make any difference. Every country in the world has traffic congestion; it’s called progress. People are just besotted with them.

Bill Burgess, Pyes Pa.