YOUR article on the ring road roundabout quoting £500,000 to merely add one lane is quite breathtaking (May 5). How can costs be so high for a short stretch of extra Tarmac? Surely any such measures taken are just mere tinkering?

What is needed is a complete upgrade of the ring road to dual status with flyovers. Strensall roundabout would be a good starting point all the way to the A64.

In later years the rest could be completed one stretch at a time.

Paul Lavin,

Shambles,

York.

Updated: 10:47 Tuesday, May 10, 2005