IN your article headlined "Twin-pronged attack on the congestion problem," (Worcester News, Friday, August 12) Councillor John Smith, the County Council's Environment Chief says: "It's up to us to give Worcester people what they want."

He then he proceeds to extol the virtues of our county council's latest bus transport initiative. Hasn't he already decided that buses have to replace "the car?" With half a million people journeying around our city, by car every day, while no more than 12,000 people travel around our city by bus each day, does Councillor John Smith have any real understanding of the logistics of transport in our city?

And with bus routes being slashed, where the bus company deems that insufficient profits are being made, aren't bus services now totally subordinate to bus company profits?

And if our bus company will only run buses on those routes that generate the most acceptable profits, isn't the eventual collapse of "services" inevitable, unless supported by vast sums of public money from our council taxes?

Doesn't the fact that our councils development strategy is adding 5,000 new houses, and hence another 40,000 extra car journeys a day, to our city's roads, every decade mean that traffic congestion will become very much worse?

N TAYLOR, Worcester.