I FULLY endorse Mrs Marwood (Letters, November 20) regarding the misguided proposal to place a rising bollard at Straylands Grove.

All this will do is create greater problems for people on Malton Road and elsewhere. We all pay road tax and council tax, so we have every right to drive along Straylands Grove.

Why should these residents get special treatment? Could it be that they have a councillor or senior council officer in their midst? Many areas in York have similar problems but if all these were given such special treatment, no one would be able to go anywhere.

Perhaps the best solution would be to place a rising bollard at every road junction on the A64 and the ring road, with the bollard only lowered for those leaving the city.

Very quickly this would alleviate the traffic and parking problems created by the incompetence of our illustrious council.

Such a scheme would be further improved if the metal rising bollards were replaced by permanently positioned rising councillors.

This would have two significant benefits.

Firstly, it would allow the councillors to perform a useful function for a change and, secondly, it would prevent them from meeting in committee and dreaming up more pathetic schemes to be imposed on the citizens of York.

Mr M. Bradley,

Postern Close,

Bishop's Wharf,

York.

Updated: 09:58 Wednesday, December 01, 2004