REGARDING Bob Jones' letter headlined "Brilliant" (You Say, Tuesday, August 10) should pensioner's bus passes be a subject for levity?

Closure of Perdiswell P&R would save some £250,000 per year, and allow for free bus passes without increases in council tax.

I advocate closure of bus lanes because they increase the log-jam effect of rush hour traffic.

Buses serving park-and-ride, and northern parts of our city, are trapped in that log-jammed traffic, on the outward leg of their journey, so "timetables" become a joke, and park-and-ride buses, on the council's own figures, carry just three passengers per bus.

What does it say about Labour's social priorities when they have spent some £5m of our money, on Perdiswell and bus lanes, and we now throw £250,000 of our council tax money down the drain annually on park-and-ride losses.

Is that sound finance, when we can't care for our old, our old die when the closure of their home is announced, and our old don't receive the free bus passes that are available in other parts of our nation?

That sounds like a case for the courts on "Human Rights" grounds to me!

N TAYLOR, Worcester.