Clive Astley, of Market Street, Salcombe, writes:

I read Gary Edgecombe’s ­letter with interest, Gazette, April 8. Just imagine Salcombe without any ‘grockles’!

It would be great, just like January all year round. No crowds, no dog poo on the pavement, plenty of parking spaces.

Hang on, in January most of the restaurants are closed, pubs close early, the place is like a ghost town. It would be okay for the locals who work in the pubs, shops etc. They could stand about all day not doing much.

Mind you, how long would that last before Fore Street was full of empty shops and Island Street’s marine businesses would have no customers? Where would all the locals work? Still, that would solve the traffic problem.

Sorry, but that’s not the answer – just as the scrumpies should learn to get along with the grockles, the traffic will have to learn to get along with the pedestrians.

The signs at the approach to Fore Street have a speed limit of 20mph and state that pedestrians have priority.

This is surely a contradiction in terms: how can you say to a driver that you can travel at 20mph but be ready for the pedestrian who, thinking they have priority, steps off the kerb in a narrow part of the road?

My opinion, for what it’s worth, is to reduce the speed limit to around 8mph and make the road and pavement all one level. This has the effect of ­taking away any feeling of ­priority that a driver feels when driving, as at present, on a clearly defined road.