DO the planners really know what they are doing regarding their proposed measures for the York/Ascot meeting?

The closure of Tadcaster Road to out-of-town traffic from 11am until 2pm seems odd. Extra traffic will be travelling into the city, not out.

This simply removes congestion from Tadcaster Road to Bishopthorpe Road, once again making South Bank and Bishopthorpe prone to more traffic delays.

Presumably the ban in Campleshon Road will exempt First buses which serve this area and Bishopthorpe, or are elderly residents with no access to a car going to be put under virtual "house arrest" for the duration of the meeting?

Proposals are certainly contradictory, with our information leaflet stating that no extra traffic will come through the village, when the opposite is obviously true.

Traffic numbers have supposedly been monitored, but does anyone really know what it is like? Have they ever taken two hours and more to travel the few miles from York to Bishopthorpe on race days?

Have they ever sat on a bus for more than one and a half hours to get home from work as I have, that is always assuming that they arrive on time (impossible in race traffic) or they turn up at all and are not off-route as race specials?

This scheme seems merely to transfer any problems from one area to another, with the residents of Bishopthorpe and South Bank once again being the losers.

P Witlea,

De Grey Place,

Bishopthorpe, York.

...WELL done John Miller ('Please put residents first', Letters, July 29), you have said word-for-word what I and many other citizens of York have been saying for years.

If Peter Evely, the city council's head of network management, had been in any other industry and caused the same chaos he would have had his verbal warning, written warning, final written warning and dismissal long ago.

W Gell,

The Werkdyke,

Aldwark,

York.

Updated: 11:22 Wednesday, August 04, 2004