In "Dual views" (Letters, January 11) once again Paul Hepworth is berating Ryedale District Council for the Clifton Moor development.

What he again omits to say is that Clifton Moor was built on the former Clifton Airfield, which was owned by the former York Council. Therefore York is just as, if not more, responsible for the Clifton Moor development than Ryedale.

A ring road's purpose should be to take traffic out of the city. York's does the opposite, therefore it is "not fit for purpose".

The traffic increase he alludes to will still happen, even if the ring road is not upgraded, causing commerce and industry to be choked, to the detriment of York.

In the second letter, yet again we have Mike Usherwood's blinkered view that only cyclists break the rules.

I would ask him, if only cyclists disobey red lights, why is it necessary for Network Rail to run campaigns concerning motorists running red lights?

In fact, when I cycle to work I've lost count of the number of times I've correctly stopped at a red light only to be passed by a motorist.

I also see on a daily basis drivers deliberately using wrong lanes then pushing in to jump queues, and drivers using access only streets as through routes, which is just the same mentality as cycling on pavements.

Peter Harrison, Broome Close, Huntington, York.


* Does Paul Hepworth have special privileges at The Press?

Judging by the number of times his irritating letters regarding dualling the A1237 appear I assume he does.

Once again he says that you can't build your way out of congestion. Maybe he can tell me how I never have to queue on the the A64 bypass, which flows as well now as it did when it was built 30 years ago?

The only time it gets slow is on summer weekends, where it meets the A1237 at the Hopgrove roundabout and the single carriageway A64 to Scarborough, which also should have been widened a long time ago.

Unlike Paul, I don't want to ride a bicycle everywhere or spend hours standing in the rain waiting for an infrequent bus to take me nowhere near where I want to go.

Dualling the A1237 would get things moving, and the sooner the better.

David Black, Strensall, York.