I HEARTILY agree with Dr Duncan Campbell about the need for a bus station in York (February 13). The ideal site would have been where the horrible monstrosity now occupying where Foxton's Garage once stood, next to the GPO sorting office. It had easy access to the railway station, but has now been lost forever.

Our 'listening' council makes every excuse when a bus station is mentioned, but I feel ashamed that a major tourist city like York has nowhere comfortable to wait for buses and coaches.

I understand that before the Second World War a model of a proposed bus station was on display in York Central Library, but the war put this on hold.

Shepherds of York won an award for designing and building Walsall bus station, so I am sure they would be quite capable of building one on their own doorstep.

How many more years have York people to wait for an amenity even smaller villages enjoy?

G Machen,

Lindsey Avenue,

Poppleton Road, York.

Updated: 10:52 Monday, February 18, 2002