Is fighting congestion really so difficult?

Congestion is the cancer of the roadways and, unfortunately, it is difficult to avoid.

We can't build roads anymore for fear of displacing the green-spotted, nasal-inhaler hedgehog or a rare species of plant, say the completious-irrelevantious, so the old favorite of the bypass is a non-starter.

We can't take the train because it can’t turn left at the cross-roads and make its way the extra 15 miles from the station to work. And, we can't - despite recent suggestions - put all freight on ships as there is a shortage of seafarers globally to man the things.

But, there are two things that can be done.

Enforce the death penalty on anybody seen or even suspected of thinking about hogging the middle-lane of the motorway.

It is ignorance and laziness personified. And, the moron mentality that fuels such behavior is made worse by the individual’s inability to acknowledge that their vehicle has mirrors. These people should be shot - they are not the only people on the roads and they are effectively making the busiest roads in the country 1/3 smaller!!!

Catch them all and put them on a road-offenders register. Worse still, make them eat marmite.

As for picking on trucks, which I might add are largely driven by the finest and most experienced drivers in the country, it’s simply ridiculous.

Spend just one day in a truck and you will realise the only problem there is speed-limiters. Enforced to make the roads safer, but successful only in making it take about three days for one truck to overtake another on the motorway. Genius.

Pack the middle lane monsters on a ship with the anti-truck protesters, set sail for France and sink the dam thing!!!