IF City of York Council wants to encourage people to use Park & Ride they should take a leaf out of Southport's book.

There, you pay 40p to park your car and then travel free into Southport on buses which are powered by natural gas.

Every day of the week between 8am and 8pm you can travel in and out of Southport as many times as you wish on any one day.

If you have heavy shopping you can take it back to your car and then hop on the next bus into town again and all this is for your original 40p payment.

Now that's what I call a good Park & Ride scheme - if Southport can do it, why can't York?

Ada Vine,

Penyghent Avenue,

York.