We are all adding to street stress

10:18am Wednesday 7th May 2008

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I CAN sympathise with the bus driver who recently wrote in (Bus Driver Fed Up With Passengers' Questions, News Shopper, April 30).

Clearly he must have had a bad day. If I had the job, I'd be sacked by lunchtime.

There seem to be many reasons why travel is stressful these days and all of us play a part:

• Motorbikes which apparently have a God-given right to use the wrong side of the road, to undertake at will and to break the speed limit from standstill in 1.8 seconds.

• Car drivers who passed their test decades ago and are clearly out of their depth.

• Pedestrians who, even with children, cross busy roads a few yards away from traffic crossings.

• The input of traffic schemes designed by "engineers" who have somehow obtained jobs and keep them despite obvious failings.

• Cyclists ignoring all traffic signals.

• Lorry drivers holding up all traffic while in the middle lane.

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