The scourge of traffic The thrust of your editorial (July 21) about the need to discourage ever more traffic on our congested roads is sensible. However, the enthusiasm for untrammelled and undisciplined use of e-scooters is unfortunate. While cities ranging from Melbourne to Los Angeles have long discovered that you can never have enough tarmac for traffic to inevitably flood it and you’re back to where you started in terms of traffic congestion, Malta does not have the infrastructure to accommodate the mushrooming curse of scooters and the like. They have become a menace to pedestrians (even a wide area such as the Sliema promenade has become an obstacle course) and an unwelcome added hazard for drivers negotiating narrow roads. They are parked haphazardly, other drivers stop whenever they feel like.