REGARDING the council's questionnaire about siting the Monks Cross Park & Ride service, I have no quarrel with their preferred option. But I'm not directly affected because I use Grimston Bar.

It seems unfair, and a waste of leaflets, to take notice of any resident who lives outside the Huntington, Stockton Lane, Malton Road areas.

The leaflet "cost 5.2p per York resident" to produce. What a meaningless statistic.

How much do these things cost when you divide by the number of council tax payers?

Four or five times as much, probably, but this council hopes we cannot smell the aromatherapy oils under their fiscal transparency.

Brian West,

Lawnswood House,

York Road,

Elvington,

York.

Updated: 10:25 Wednesday, August 22, 2001