ONE wonders if the so-called travel consultants ever consider what the impact of their grandiose plans would have on the people living in the areas.

We are informed that there is to be a new Park and Ride off the A59 despite the fact that the one at Rawcliffe is rarely full.

Living just off the A59 I have seen my trips into the city take 45 minutes as opposed to the ten minutes they used to take.

Recently the trip from the Paddock to the Wetherby Whaler roundabout took me 20 minutes, this is less than a mile.

We have a large building complex on the old Donnelleys site, several flats built on the site of the old forge and more on the Ainsty bakery site.

I am sure that I will be told that the new Park and Ride will ease the situation. This is clearly not so because the cars will have to get to the site and we are all aware that only a few will use the facility. As a disabled person who cannot cope getting on a bus, I am one of them.

Perhaps one of the "experts" would like to stand at the end of the Paddock one morning and observe the traffic, or better still try to get out of the Paddock on to the A59.

The people who live in Poppleton might as well be living on an island, they have little chance of making it in to York in the morning in less than an hour.

The A59 cannot cope with any more traffic, it is already too congested.

Faith M Seward,

The Paddock,

York.

Updated: 09:38 Monday, November 15, 2004