“It’s no longer a pleasure driving in the UK,” a British tourist told me recently, “and it became like that here too”, I answered. At peak hours, if it’s not a collision that’s holding up traffic, it’s a clogged roundabout, a stalled car or a slow-moving vehicle.

If you try to take an alternative route through a village, it’s either a construction site, a garbage truck, a fishmonger or vegetable vendor parked on double yellow lines on a corner – you name it and it’s there blocking the free flow of traffic.

With the amount of registered cars at a staggering 310,409 and increasing at an alarming rate, the authorities should urgently control the situation.