Dear Sir,

Gone are the days of parliamentary representatives having dialogue with their constituents. Sir John Swan, Eugene Cox, Harry Viera, Jim Woolridge, John Barritt, Wayne Caines and Reggie Burrows, to name a few, were all approachable and responded to constituents queries and had face-to-face meetings.

We now have recorded our fifteenth road fatality, which is totally unacceptable. What is the Government doing — bringing in more “experts”, paying high consultancy fees, when some down-to-earth common sense could be applied? Legislative changes have recently been made which will only make matters worse.

Apart from writing to you, Sir, and expressing an opinion, the Government is hoping to solve the problem by 2030, which means about another 60 Bermudians will die on our roads. This is totally unacceptable.

I have written four e-mails over the past three months to my representative in Parliament, Alexa Lightbourne, and have not received any acknowledgement. I can assume, correctly or incorrectly, the e-mails have gone through because none have been returned "incorrect address".

I have attempted to come up with some solutions to the carnage which is occurring on roads, but my guess is that my solutions are too drastic for the parliamentarians and they are afraid of losing votes by implementing such measures. The possibility of 60 families being devastated by the loss of their loved ones during the next four years, appears to be inconsequential to the members sitting securely in the House.

The common courtesies responding to any correspondence appears to have gone out of the window. The fact my views may not coincide with Ms Lightbourne’s is beside the point; without dialogue we do not move forward. While I do not have all of the answers, I am prepared to listen to another point of view.

I thought I was wrong once, but I made a mistake!

ANTONY SIESE

Paget

Editor’s note: Devonshire North West (Constituency 14) crosses over into Paget