In your item entitled 'Cabstand is absolutely awful' you quoted a poll on the Portishead website saying that nearly 80 per cent of its on-line visitors

In your item entitled 'Cabstand is absolutely awful' you quoted a poll on the Portishead website saying that nearly 80 per cent of its on-line visitors think that the Cabstand lights are absolutely awful. What was not said was that only 75 people had voted - 75 out of a population of 20,000 is hardly a representative sample.Portishead now is a good size town and no longer a village. A population of this size, and growing daily, inevitably brings more traffic and traffic lights are the unavoidable consequence.Jill Piper - Nightingale Rise, Portishead