Reader's letter

It's not often I agree with Mike Usherwood (Letters, March 30), but I too was sorry that no significant extra money was found for transport in the Budget.

The Chancellor had promised that the income from any rise in fuel duty in excess of inflation would be directed into transport measures. It's a shame he chose to only put fuel duty up in line with inflation.

Many other motoring taxes were not even increased by that amount. He did allocate £280 million for "tackling congestion hotspots and modernising public transport", but this is a relatively small amount of money compared to the transport problems we face. Perhaps we need to look for other sources of revenue to fund the transport improvements everyone agrees are necessary?

Matthew Page,

Emerald Street,

York.

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