I am writing as a confused resident of Clifton Moor. Following various council initiatives suggesting we use public transport - my only mode of transport into York - I began taking the bus to work every morning, along with many others.

This is not my problem, but the cancellation of the Clifton Moor Park and Ride is.

This regular, clean, safe service, which is quite obviously exceptionally popular, as anyone who has ever seen the queues at the Museum Gardens stop will testify, is to be closed down in one of the coldest months of the year.

Most of the other residents I know, especially those with young children, will also miss our frequent 'kneeling' buses because the other service does not provide regular buses at reasonable times, or easy access for pushchairs.

I suggest that those who decided to put the Park and Ride elsewhere will regret doing so.

It will only reduce easy access to the shops and cinema and make life much less pleasant for the residents of Clifton Moor.

Caroline Kett,

Deer Hill Grove,

Clifton Moor, York.

...The following statement comes from the National Federation of Bus Users' Christmas newsletter: "It is still cheaper for one person to buy a new car every seven years, pay every associated cost, driving 10,000 miles per year, than it is to make those journeys by bus.

"Therefore it seems the bus passengers are subsidising the motorist."

Not much fair competition here. Motorists are definitely not going to transfer to buses when it is cheaper to run a car.

So who's being taken for a ride and paying over the odds for it?

Doug Begbie, (car owner),

Burton Stone Lane,

York.

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