WHILE applauding our council's opposition to a park-and-ride scheme at Whittington similar schemes are going to be dotted around our city in a futile attempt to "reduce traffic."
The cerebrally-challenged advocates of park-and-ride don't know what they are talking about, and haven't the first clue about how to go about solving problems.
They don't want to know that park-and-ride could only carry a minute proportion of those travelling around our city each day, or that devoting whole roads to park-ride is a waste of resources.
Nor do they want to accept that it is an expensive and utterly pointless Labour "white elephant" that sucks a quarter of a million out of the pockets of Worcester's council taxpayers, every year, for each site built.
The reasons park-and-ride is a disaster are many and varied, but foremost must be the fact that our councillors are adding 500 houses a year, to our city, and hence 500 cars a year to our city's traffic congestion.
Over 20 years that means 10,000 extra cars, and 80,000 extra car journeys a day, on our local roads. That simple logic explains why Worcester now has "traffic congestion;" but the problem isn't "traffic congestion."
It is "housing congestion."
N TAYLOR,
Worcester.
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