There is only one answer to the problem of buses and coaches causing congestion in Stratford.

Consideration must be urgently given to the building of a common bus and coach station, and then prohibiting these vehicles from driving in the town centre.

The most obvious place for a bus station and coach park is on the present cattle market site.

Most big cities and towns have a central bus station but Stratford councillors seem to look the other way every time this problem rears its head.

But it will not go away. If there were a common terminus close to the railway station, a natural link, then public transport problems would be greatly eased and simplified.

Only the small town buses should be allowed to travel through the town and these would be routed to the central bus station at each journey.

Thus shoppers would be able to ride to the bus station to catch their connections to other towns and villages.

Tour buses would have to tour outside the town centre because there is nothing to stop tourists from walking to the town centre attractions.

Coaches would route straight to the station and there would be plenty of coach bays for parking at a reasonable rate.

There would be none of the kerfuffle of dropping off passengers, resorting to the present coach park, and then returning to the town centre to pick up their passengers.

Most coach drivers would welcome this situation for no sensible coach driver likes struggling through a congested town. I know this because I have driven coaches throughout Britain and on the Continent.

The sooner a bus and coach station is built, the sooner Stratford town centre will be a more pleasant place to walk through.

D Bedford, 2 Fairfields Walk , Statford.