THE reported provision of a green transport link through the Nestlé site is excellent news (A blueprint for Nestle, The Press, January 18).

With no selfish car users to bung it up, it will help to speed the journeys of bus passengers, pedestrians and pedal cyclists, and make these travel modes much more pleasant and competitive with the car, for many trips to and from York's suburbs.

Those who have suggested that the new link should be accessible to motorists need only look at the M25 to see that it is impossible to build one's way out of existing traffic congestion.

New roads merely encourage greater car use, and so become gridlocked themselves in a few years. It is a wholly self-defeating process.

I urge our council's transport planners and politicians to strongly resist the motoring lobby on this issue.

Then perhaps we can bequeath a much cleaner and healthier city to our descendants.

Paul Hepworth, Windmill Rise, Holgate, York.