Dear 'Worried of St Georges Avenue' (Dear Star, August 26), I write on behalf of the concerned parents who live on the corner of Queens Drive and St George Avenue. We are concerned about the high speed of cars travelling along our roads. If you are having to break suddenly then you are driving too fast in the first place.

Many children who play here do not live in these roads, they come here because it is safer here than where they live.

During school holidays it is too expensive to go on a family day out every day and the children want to mix with their friends as much as they can. You cannot restrict children to playing in back gardens all the time and isn't it better for children to acquire road sense in front of their own homes where parents can keep a watchful eye on them. In the day and age of television and computer games children are being encouraged to get more exercise. Do you remember playing on bikes with your friends when you were young?

Schools are now reopening, the nights are starting to draw in and the weather will soon decline so playing out weather will come to an end.

Could you please be patient!

CONCERNED parent (via e-mail)