Weighing in on the heavy SUV debate | Brief letters

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Regarding your editorial on SUVs (16 March), a simple way to make road users pay their share is to tax vehicles by weight. I’d quite happily pay my share towards the road damage caused, and space taken up, by my bicycle.
Richard Jones
Bristol

• I never read travel journalism as I believe that if a place sounds too wonderful everyone else will be inspired to visit it too. But Mark Cocker (Country Diary, 17 March) had me fooled into wanting to go and look at the flowers in … no, I won’t say where.
Jocelyn Rose
Fort William, Highlands

• I too was told by my mother to wear clean pants in case I got knocked over (Letters, 15 March). Unfortunately I was, and my femur and clavicle were broken. No one was interested in how clean my pants were. Indeed, much of my clothing was cut off.
Jeff Anderson
Harrow, London

• Urging me not to waffle, my mother used to say: “You open your mouth and the wind blows your tongue about.”
Tony Burnham
Didsbury, Manchester

• The barleycorn as a unit of measurement has surely not faded into the mists of time (Letters, 15 March). It is in use every time you buy a pair of shoes.
Rosalind Clayton
London

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