PETER Evely, City of York Council's head of network management, ought to be able to work out that the reason visitor permits exceed household permits (Letters, December 6) is because a household permit can last a year while a visitor's permit lasts a day.
If the ratio of permits issued is 20:1 it is because households receive a visitor every 18 days. If the ratio is "an astonishingly huge" 122:1, it is because every third day, households receive a visitor.
So why is he astonished?
Friends, relatives, home-help (try cooking a lunch in ten minutes), deliveries, maintenance and building contractors - yet only one visitor every three days?
What sort of a dreary, miserable suburban existence does he have? We live in the city centre because it's an interesting - vibrant and exciting - place to be.
And guess what? People come to visit us, to bring us things, to take us places, to share in what we are doing.
CA Wood,
Portland Street, York.
Updated: 10:10 Thursday, December 09, 2004
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