MY idea was to attack the problem of the Malvern gradient with a jazzy little French-style road train through the town centre right up the slope to St Ann's Well, plus a ski-lift/cable car from there to near the Worcester Beacon and a small focal central bus stand/station (which, unbelievably, Malvern hasn't got) on the Graham Road library site.

If the Town Centre Partnership wants a project, it can sort out Malvern's buses.

Considering the millions spent on subsidising them, the actual routes are a disgrace. Many routes go via C, D, E and F to get from A to B, it's almost quicker to walk. No wonder you are often the only passenger aboard.

Yet the most screamingly obvious route of all - straight along the A449, through the Link, Link Top, Great Malvern and Malvern Wells, near where most people live and want to travel to and from - simply does not exist.

Local public transport needs to be jazzed up and made attractive and this you will never do by the Stalinist method of banning cars. People have invested real money in their cars and they will just steam off to those places where cars are welcomed. I fear our planners have yet to learn this unfortunate truth.

C R Cheeseman, Wells Road, Malvern.