SIR, Re the Editorial "Things must change on traffic issues", (Worcester News September 2).
If you plough through the Worcester News archive you will find dozens of letters from Worcester people pointing out park-and-ride buses were running around our city empty. Losses in the first year of service were admitted as £250,000. To mask those losses, park-and-ride was run all around our city to pick up extra passengers and conceal the mega million disaster our councillors had on their hands, because they refused to do a forensic cost benefit analysis, or indeed a proper business plan, both of which would have underlined to our councillors and council executives park-and-ride wouldn't work.
I've always called Perdiswell "Labour's monument to stupidity!"
Even if Perdiswell was chock full every day its effect upon Worcester's traffic would have been invisible. More than 320,000 car journeys a day are done on our roads. The continual growth in Worcester's traffic congestion comes from housing development. Every additional 1,000 houses built locally adds 8,000 car journeys a day to our local roads. Sooner or later the Worcester News is going to have to cross the Rubicon and recognise that our problem is too many people.
N TAYLOR Worcester
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