THE only way to make Park and Ride work is to close down a city centre parking place for every one created elsewhere. Or would this interfere with the regular flow of cash from the city's over-priced parking ticket machines?
I am in favour of Park and Ride and use it frequently, but only if the time I'm staying in town makes it worthwhile. Many of my trips require just an hour in the city and if I can park for 60p or 70p, I consider it better than paying £2.80 in bus fares for me and my wife, despite the cost of petrol I use to drive in.
News of a high-speed, high-frequency bus service for York is encouraging, but which comes first, the chicken or the egg? What John Prescott and many city transport planners don't understand is that money must be invested in pleasing-to-use public transport first before any punitive sanctions suggested in your editorial (September 22).
R Hawkshaw,
Holly Tree Croft,
Dunnington, York.
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