I try my best not to be alarmed by anything going on in this crazy world of ours these days but I was truly alarmed, distraught even, to read that there are now no fewer than 50,000 cars on the roads of Cayman. Why on earth has this been allowed to happen?
It is not as though this has happened overnight. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. You published a letter of mine (in April 2022) in which I said that the warning signs were there and referred to three other territories where very different policies had been put in place to address the issue:
– in Sweden, to allay fuel shortages, your licence plate determined which days you could drive;
– in France, for religious and recreational reasons, heavy goods vehicles are banned on the Sabbath;
– in Bermuda, households have long been restricted to a single car, engine size also being limited.
Just what has been going on in Cayman in the interim to address this alarming dilemma?
Mike Spragg
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