THE recent chaos in Gillygate due to roadworks could have been avoided if the planners of long past and today had foreseen the build-up of traffic in that area.

I lived there before the war when the motor traffic was on the up. It was proposed then to build a road on stilts over Bootham Park to the junction of Grosvenor Terrace with Bootham. It would form a triangle from Clarence Street, Bootham and Gillygate area, along with a light bridge from Marygate to Leeman Road. What a blessing it would have been now.

All I hear today is stop the traffic, put a tax on the car; pay, pay, pay. It's like everything today: we are told we don't repair things, you have to have new.

It's time to do the best we can for York people for a change, not the city fathers.

E Phillips,

Severus Avenue,

Acomb, York.

Updated: 09:07 Monday, November 28, 2005