IN response to those who use park-and-ride, given that Mrs C C Richards lives in Worcester, why doesn't she walk or use a regular bus?

Given that John Merrick lives in Fernhill Health, a couple of hundred yards away from the park-and-ride site, why doesn't he walk there or catch a regular bus?

It's disgraceful that people who can afford the now £100-a-week costs of owning and running a car see nothing wrong with taking a fiver off us Worcester council taxpayers each time they use park-and-ride.

If they're so supportive of park-and-ride, let them send a fiver each time they use it to Help the Aged. That way, they'll be paying the full economic costs of the service.

Better still, if there's that sort of demand, increase the park-and-ride bus charges by a fiver as soon as unsustainable levels of housing development make car use in Worcester impossible during the rush hours.

Perdiswell park-and-ride now loses £250,000 of council taxpayers' money a year. Perdiswell was also built at a cost of £5m to remove cars from Worcester, so that the development-mad people - who are throttling our city with traffic - could claim that they were "doing something about the traffic" their unsustainable levels of development are causing.

If they hadn't built another 15 thousand houses in Worcester, over the past 30 years, we wouldn't need park-and-ride.

Instead of attacking my park-and-ride stance, people like Mrs C C Richards and John Merrick should recognise that it is our development-mad councillors who are causing the traffic jams in Worcester.

And park-and-ride is their pathetic attempt to "do something about traffic" that their totally unsustainable levels of development are bringing to our city.

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.