SIR - The Worcester News article 'Politicians in clash over city life survey' on July 5 caught my eye, specifically the reference to congestion.

The number of houses in our city has doubled to over 40,000 since the 1960s and that explains why congestion has become such an increasing problem. Gridlock in Lowesmoor is a regular event. It is invariably caused by a car or a van left parked on the pavement across two solid yellow lines, reducing Lowesmoor to single file traffic around the obstruction. Our roads are under constant CCTV monitoring, so where are traffic wardens to sort out the jams? My researches indicate they are to be found patrolling the car parks because that's where the money is. They are mugging motorists for more council cash.

With house building rapidly increasing traffic congestion on our roads why aren't traffic wardens being employed to keep our city traffic moving? Why aren't they being managed by the CCTV people to go to roads where traffic is gridlocked and get the traffic moving again? What is the cost of thousands of people being unable to get to where they need to be to our local economy? What is the cost to our NHS of people being unable to get to our hospital because of gridlocked roads? And if our roads are already terribly congested now, how on earth will they cope, when another 240,000 car journeys a day are added to our traffic, by the building of another 30,000 houses here, via our politician's South Worcestershire Destruction Plan?

N TAYLOR Worcester