?Yes, that small amount of people who like the one way system because they live on it. What filth! How dare they care about their own immediate surroundings? Don't they realise there are car drivers to placate? They barely deserve to live! When we all live in a Clarksonite dictatorship things will be so much better, and we'll be able to have low taxes, great services, and no debt! It'll be great!

Dan, you are the embodiment of why motorists get a bad name. Your lack of consideration for anyone else is astonishing. It's all me me me. It's an inconvenience to you, that doesn't mean it's a bad thing for everyone. Learn a bit of respect.?

Baboonary, I?m sorry to have to say it but that response was hysterical.

I have to point out I?m not advocating taking anything from anyone, not even you, so your charge of selfishness rings extremely hollow.

I don?t begrudge you wanting to improve your immediate surroundings or increase your house value. But it is important to understand that if everyone had license to bar 50% of traffic outside their own home everyone would and the roads would come to a standstill.

I do personally think that in an effort to improve the house value of a small number of people is not worth jamming shut a road that severs a considerably larger number of people. HOWEVER, I never asked you to accept reverting to a 2-way system. I quite appreciate that it would be contrary to your self-interest and would produce a visceral reaction, which it did.

Rather I suggested a compromise of encouraging the council to increase the timing on the lights as this would treat the underlying problem rather than spending huge sums of tax-payers money on treating the symptoms. Surely we could agree on this one simple point?