I NATURALLY support M Simpkins' letter (Folly of park-and-ride), especially his view that it wouldn't matter if Worcester had 100 park-and-ride sites, and also his comment that park-and-ride is a disaster.

I was much taken with the political hand-wringing, during our elections, over traffic congestion and business closures in Barbourne.

There's an immediate antidote - shut Perdiswell park-and-ride and remove the bus lanes from our roads.

That bus lanes carry just a handful of buses, while rush-hour traffic dribbles through parts of our city, is a condemnation of the competence of those involved in this continuing disaster.

Even more so, when those responsible for this debacle hunker down in their town hall and county hall bunkers, and hope that their critics will just go away, and leave them in peace to throw more huge sums of council taxpayers' money down the drain, on their traffic management strategy disaster.

However, Mr Simpkins made a couple of errors in his letter.

The correct sums should have been £250,000 and £600,000 in losses respectively, depending on how park-and-ride's losses are calculated.

The fact that more of these loss-making disasters - with their congestion - causing bus lanes are being planned, underlines the abject failure of those responsible for these stupid decisions to learn from their mistakes.

The fact that we shall end up paying nearly two-and-a half million a year, on Mr Simpkins' calculations, for these loss-making park and ride facilities, when the council doesn't have enough money to adequately fund the education of our children, shows that potty decisions are now being made.

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.