I OBJECT to City of York Council's proposed new race track on Malton Road.

Phase one of his new "amenity" will start at Straylands Grove and end just before the roundabout at Heworth Green. The council calls it "bus priorities" but, because it is removing three traffic-speed reduction islands together with the grass verges (and the daffodils planted to celebrate the Millennium), it is a racetrack by another name.

A lamp post has recently been demolished by a racer who, presumably, failed to negotiate the bend in the road.

How are children supposed to get to school across this road? How much time will be saved and will it be worth the cost involved in this ludicrous scheme to have a bus lane on a 500-yard stretch of road? Is it worth the life of one child? I also object to the proliferation of proposed traffic signs (approximately 25) which presumably only the cyclists/pedestrians sharing the former grass verge will have time to read.

Eve Bramfitt,

Muncastergate,

York.

Updated: 10:38 Thursday, March 25, 2004