READING about the calls for a review of Glasgow’s traffic system following the runaway bus crash (Evening Times July 21), there were very sensible comments from our politicians - there is hope after all!

This is a very rare event and not everything can be controlled.

The city centre traffic flow review is long overdue and will no doubt be a half baked piece of work through fear of upsetting the car lobby.

The streets were not built for the car! I travel by bus every day and am rewarded with an unpredictable journey because of the congestion caused by the cars choking the roads at peak time.

The city fathers of yesteryear wouldn’t have put up with this.

Andrew Menzies, posted online

I AGREE that car traffic is bad at times but the city centre is dying on its feet with lack of people through car parking charges and cost of bus fares.

It will soon be a ghost city centre with everybody going to out of town shopping centres.

Joseph Fadden, posted online

IN relation to the Chilcot inquiry, I worked for the Ministry of Defence during the second gulf war.

One poor man is missing from the body count - David Kelly.

He worked for the MOD and told Blair there were no WOMD in Iraq.

Oddly enough he was found soon after having apparently committed suicide.

One more unsung hero and victim of the war.

Alex Lindsay, Baldwin Avenue, Glasgow

I WAS very interested to see the photo in the Evening Times Your Memories (July 20) of SS Uganda prior to her launch at Barclay Curle’s in 1952.

Built to ferry people out to East Africa as part of the eventual abortive Ground Nuts Scheme she later enjoyed life as an Educational Cruise Ship and also saw service in the Falklands.

It always amazes me that some ships like Uganda are launched with most fittings included and others sometimes are just bare shells,

Paul Strathdee, Barrachnie Crescent, Garrowhill

IN relation to the story about staff shortages reported nearly 1,000 times in Glasgow hospitals (Evening Times July 21), our staffing levels are worsening by the year as our patient numbers and workload increase.

If anything, it is becoming the norm to run short staffed, and so I would say it is massively underreported.

Locally, we are encouraged not to use the Datix reporting system to record staff shortage, and I know first hand of colleagues who have been asked specifically to stop reporting critical shortage this way.

I can’t bear NHS bashing, but this is a welcome article, the problem is even worse than the data suggests.

Catriona, posted online