WOULD it not have been a grand gesture – which, at the same time, would have improved their public image – if all the traffic wardens, instead of searching for yellow lines under the snow, had joined council staff in helping to clear snow from the pavements?

Drivers were aware of the road conditions without some wardens’ tactics.

To help pedestrians would have been a novel idea and most welcome.

BERNARD GREENBERG, Vicarage Road,Oxford