DEAR EDITOR --I read Mrs Richmond's comments about the Bromsgrove railway car park (Letters April 23) with considerable interest.

I must applaud the council for the new car park, but not its charges.

However my major concern is about the overall parking capacity of the new facility. Before the car park opened, I counted the cars parked from the junction of Rigby Lane and New Road to the last parking space before the railway platform, a total of 45 vehicles.

I counted the same number of spaces in the new car park. It would appear that the council has only done half a job, since there was a similar number of cars parked on the other side of New Road.

Where are these cars going to appear when the threatened crop of yellow lines are painted around the New Road/station area?

Further, how are the residents on New Road to handle visitors to their homes? Will we see another building spree with residents being forced to transform front gardens to provide off street parking?

Surely some form of residents on-road parking scheme would make sense, allowing visitors to use what off-street parking already exists. But even this is just a band-aid solution to the real problem.

To support the growth in use of public transport we need more car-parking capacity to allow people to commute a small percentage of their journey by road and then use the train to Birmingham or where-ever for the majority.

If we are serious about public transport then let's apply our minds seriously and provide a serious increase in parking spaces.

Anthony A Moxon,

Hedges Way,

Bromsgrove.