Messing with road layouts spells danger ahead | Letters

Simon Jenkins’s assertion (Opinion, 5 February) that “a public road is like a restaurant” casts doubt on his prescriptions for better traffic management (or non-management). I am doubly immune to his utopian visions from the experience of a halfway version in Brussels. Belgium’s roads have lines down the middle, but many of the markings (though not all) that awarded right of way at junctions have gone. One is simply obliged to give way to the right. Perhaps Mr Jenkins wou