We seem to have lurched into the absurd. To start claiming that mugging is against the law and turning onto a one way street is against the law therefore comparable is as patently ridiculous as to claim that anyone who has ever driven at 31mph on a 30mph limit road is as bad as Fred West. Let?s at least try and recognise that the law is supposed to be an expression of the will of the people. Thus the election of representatives to government, and Jury system of the people to render judgement on their peers. If a law commands no common respect by the tradition of liberty than governance by popular consent cannot be said to be occurring. What we seem to have here is a tiny number of people who happen to live there are quiet taken by the fact that traffic outside their house is down and now want to sound off from the moral high ground.

We already have a swath of CCTV and remote enforcement that has been gleefully lapped up by many on this thread. Albeit with caveats such as ?only used for?, well hate to break it to you but the state and especially local councils have a fantastic record of overreaching. Which is why we now get spied on by our councils through use of the anti terror legislation. Indeed I remember as little as 15 years ago you used to see police cards patrol the road backed up by a good number of unmarked cars who would occasionally pull people over. Now we just have no police and masses of Speed Cameras. So people can and do, drive extremely badly and dangerously, but as long as they slow down while driving through cameras they do so with utter impunity.

However, all of my above post is as unnecessary as the points it is responding to.

We have a small number of people who this one way system appeals to because they live on it. We then have a much larger number of perfectly decent taxpaying law abiding people who just want to go about their lawful business, in the small space of time they have in-between working all day to pay off Gordon Browns staggering level of debt, and having to sleep. They resent sitting 30 cars back watching one or two cars peal off at the bottom of the hill, due to bad road planning. They see an empty road and decide that its not going to hurt anyone if they go down there. And they?re right! (despite the fantasies of dozens of dead children littering the road that some have dreamt up)

Now the nub of it. We could never all agree that returning the road to something obviously sensible like 2-way, because of the people who self interest would be affected would just start getting hysterical again. Perhaps we should all agree that the timings on the lights should be at least doubled to say 4 seconds. So there is a massively reduced temptation to use that inviting looking empty road. Perhaps is such a modest proposal could be represented to the powers that be they might consider it.

In between employing people for the sake of it to use up our taxes that is.