I TAKE exception to Councillor Gil Nimmo's comments regarding the high cost of taxi journeys (Taxi fares to go up by four per cent, The Press, April 9). The mile-and-a-half journey he mentions would cost £4.12, and not £5 as he says.

In fact, the £5 that he quotes would take him in excess of two miles at the new rates. Shared between four people, this would probably be less expensive than the bus.

Alan Rowley, secretary, York Taxi Association, Millfield Lane, Hull Road, York.