Sir - On Tuesday evening (25/03) it took just over an hour for my wife to drive 7 miles from her work in Worcester City Centre to home south of Kempsey. Roadworks in Castle Street and Bath Road have crippled traffic for weeks and overdue works to improve the Southern Link road start next month, which will compound problems.

The issue of transport in Worcester is a complete shambles with both City and County Councils struggling to come up with any tangible ideas on how to improve the situation.

Park and Ride at Sixways and Perdiswell are pointless as the buses get bogged down in the same gridlock which affects everyone else. The rail network bi-sects the City at three points in the West, North and South-East. Worcester Parkway has been talked about for 40 years and I feel everyone is being seriously let down by a lack of vision and ambition by authorities and local politicians who have allowed the project to remain on the back burner.

Sites at Worcester Parkway , Blackpole and Rushwick having ample parking and frequent and fast train services to Foregate Street would vastly improve the transport infrastructure of the City. I would urge all who have the power to make decisions on this subject, to re-visit rail as a solution to the traffic problems of Worcester, as a matter of urgency, so that it truly can be claimed to be a good place to live, work and visit.

Paul Freeman,

Kerswell Green