Madam, - Brendan Langley (June 21st) is perhaps fortunate that he has experienced the absence of lay-bys on only one stretch of highway taking in counties Wicklow and Wexford.
Over many years of enjoying motoring holidays in the Republic, taking in most counties, the almost complete absence of roadside picnic places has been a constant frustration.
In more cynical moments I have wondered if this absence may in some way be related to pressure on local authorities by those well-known guardians of the public interest, publicans. - Yours, etc.,
CHARLES McCULLAGH, Kilmore Park, Kilmore, Co Armagh.