I'm delighted that the wholesale civil disobedience by motorists flouting the High Street daytime car ban is finally being tackled ("Clampdown", Oxford Mail, September 11).
It is disgraceful that it has taken SEVEN YEARS for enforcement to be implemented.
Your reporter counted 200 cars violating the restriction in just one typical hour. At a fine of £30 each that's £6000 per hour in lost revenue or a staggering £66,000 per day. Multiplied by 365 the missing money totals £24m a year, or £168m since the ban came into force in 1999!
Enough to pay for a brand new hospital and several schools. What a waste!
MARK DORAN Oatlands Road, Oxford
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