IT is nice to see City of York Council wasting £900,000 on a bus location and information sub-system to try to encourage more people to use city buses.

I should prefer to pay less council tax.

With my daughter now paying £1.20 from town to Dringhouses to get home, I can tell Coun Tracy Simpson-Laing (March 19) the way to get people to use buses more is simply to look at the fares.

Reliability should already be built in to any well-run business.

N Hillen,

Wains Road,

Dringhouses,

York.

Updated: 10:43 Tuesday, April 01, 2003