JOHN Phillpott wrote (Seven Days, Saturday, August 13) that "park-and-ride is a folly. Oh joy!

He also referred to "...the existing tax-eating folly at Perdiswell." I wonder if our councillors actually know that Perdiswell generates losses approaching £250,000 a year, and that bus lanes make traffic congestion worse.

I also wonder if they know that buses serving park-and-ride are trapped in that rush hour traffic on the outward leg to Perdiswell park-and-ride. So if they know that park-and-ride can only carry a minute proportion of the half a million people, who journey around city by car each day, why are they planning another two more park-and-ride sites? And why are they happy to throw away £750,000 of Worcester council taxpayers' money annually, on the running costs of these new disasters? Important though public transport is, the reality is that public transport only carries some 12,000 bus passengers a day in our city. Isn't that figure is irrelevant, when compared with the half a million people journeying around our city by car daily?

N TAYLOR, Worcester.