THERE can be no doubt that the closure of Lendal Bridge has been a public relations disaster for tourism in York. That being the case, maybe credit should be given where credit is due.

As there is no museum on Museum Street and Lendal Bridge is not on Lendal, should they not be renamed “James Alexander Way” and “Dick Turpin Bridge”?

As my late father-in-law, Frank Hensman, of Stamford Bridge, would have said: “So and so politicians, they’ve allus got their ’ands in somebody’s back pocket”. And that’s exactly how they feel, that they have been fleeced and duped by an ingenious scheme for the council to impose anther burden on the motorist.

Geoffrey Searstone, Moor Lane, York.

 

• AS A regular user of the No. 2 Park&Ride service since its inception, its ten-minute reliability was exceptional before the closure of Lendal Bridge.

Now, one reads City of York Council’s reports on the regularity of these services with a little cynicism. This is not the experience of many passengers at certain times of day.

Because of this, not only car drivers are not returning to York (D Wright, Letters, January 30), but also Park&Ride passengers.

After waiting next to me for 25 minutes in the queue recently, a couple who regularly visited York, and who had waited 30 minutes the previous week only to have the bus fill up and leave them waiting for the next one, said: “No more – it’s goodbye York.”

Dr S Moxon, Water End, York.