SIR – Mr Nielsen must be scraping the barrel to come up with such a miserable letter (‘Mass burial is not the solution’, October 2).
Is he the only Worcester News reader who refused to see I was writing allegorically? OK he doesn’t like the way I write, so what? Isn’t Worcester’s increasing traffic congestion graphic evidence that our infrastructure can no longer cope with our rising population?
Didn’t Mr Nielsen write in ‘Not enough space for all the vehicles on road’ January 27, 2014, ‘...there is not enough room now for the numbers of cars in use. More road widening, bigger traffic island, a northern by-pass, a new bridge ... where does it all end?’ Doesn’t that suggest Mr Nielsen has no views of his own on solving Worcester’s increasing traffic congestion problems?
I quote Mr Nielsen ‘...he is so frequently angry about the growth in population without offering any way to manage the situation.’ Perhaps Mr Neilsen should pay more attention to my letters. Our primary problem is there are too many of us. We have to stop immigration, and get our population down to long term ecologically sustainable levels.
I have repeatedly said, ‘Our nation doesn’t have the farming resources to feed half of us,’ yet here we are, concreting over our farmland, because our ever increasing population fuels house building, and ‘economic growth’, and hence ever bigger bonuses for the city’s robber barons! I think it’s time our politicians woke up to ecological reality, but I already know that’s a lost cause! My generation won’t be around long enough to suffer the dire consequences of today’s political stupidities, but our children will, so when they ask ‘You knew yet you did nothing! Why?’ how will you answer them Mr Neilsen?
N TAYLOR
Worcester

I’m still waiting for answers on the buses
SIR – Thank you for publishing my letter three weeks ago.  I was hoping that it would be read by someone at Worcester County Hall and/or First Midland Red Buses and that they would respond with an explanation of what the recent changes to the bus services between Worcester, Pershore and Evesham are, why they were necessary and the extent to which local people were consulted before the changes were implemented.  Perhaps they don’t read the paper or they do not believe the issue is worthy of attention
Some of the questions people are asking are.
l What is Route 561 and why does it go via County Hall?
l What is Route X50 - where does it stop and where does it not stop?
l Why has the service on Route 382 been reduced?
l Who will the changes benefit?
ROGER BATTY
Pershore

Common good should come before profits
SIR – The Whole Earth? exhibition currently outside the Hive is a very powerful reminder of the importance of sustainability.
It is difficult to disagree with the following quotes from the exhibition: “Our development is unsustainable; we are robbing the future of the resources it will need to thrive. Society is moving towards major disasters…
The major economic system – capitalism – depends on rapid material growth on a planet whose resources are already being overused by its human population.
It is a complex and difficult task to get political leaders to work together to tackle the long-term threats caused because political leaders don’t lead, they follow the powerful…Our political leaders have become crisis managers, managing the crisis caused by the systems they espouse.” So we have a choice: we continue to support these ‘crisis managers’ or we look for an alternative: one that prioritises the common good over profit at all costs.
NEIL LAURENSEN
Worcester Green Party

Where have all the day parkers gone now?
SIR – There is much truth in what Terry James (Worcester News, October 14) of Drakes Broughton says on the failure of the city park and ride.
 St George’s Square is a typical example. This used to be full of all day parkers,but since the change to residential and three hour limit to others,the square is free for local shoppers only.
 I wonder where the all day parkers have gone now?
PHIL PEGLER
Worcester