Overtaking a real liberty

HAVE I actually missed something that happened in Parliament? Have they been passing a new law and not letting the ordinary car driver know?

On a journey from York to home, I was passed numerous times by motorcyclists travelling way in excess of what I thought was the legal 60mph. I came to think that Parliament had made motorcyclists exempt from the speed limits we mere mortal car drivers have to observe.

Then I remembered that they had either disbanded the police or put the job out to tender. Can someone enlighten me why PCCs have been elected when we have so few visible officers to commission?

City pubs plan no square deal

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

I AM in total agreement with the many people who disagree with the proposal to create three new pubs in York and to spend half a million pounds refurbishing Kings Square.

It would make more sense to convert the three empty shops into affordable “in town” housing, and to spend that £500,000 on something like repairing York’s poor and potholed roads, and/or a new recycling depot that can handle many of the reusable items that we all currently just have to throw away.

Health chiefs won’t feel pinch

From: Jim Beck, Lindrick Grove, Tickhill, Doncaster.

THE opening words of your paper (Yorkshire Post, April 20) were “NHS chiefs face bills of up to £100m to cover the cost of health care fees”.

However it is the taxpayers who face these bills. And the NHS chiefs? They are no doubt eagerly anticipating their performance-related bonuses.