PETER Lea's letter, headlined "Motorists set in their ways", is a triumph of opinion over logic.

He talks of banning all private vehicles from our city, at specific times.

Perhaps he'll tell us how park-and-ride would cope with the problems of replacing the 300,000 vehicle movements that occur in our city each working day.

Or, perhaps, he could explain how park-and-ride would cope with the 40,000 private cars that cross our city's boundaries each rush-hour.

Or how our local bus company, which cannot attract sufficient staff, and looked at recruiting bus drivers from South Africa, is going to find "thousands" of bus drivers.

From the people/car ratios, established by Perdiswell's park-and-ride, there are around three-quarters of a million "people movements" around our city each working day.

Perhaps Mr Lea will tell us how many park-and-ride sites we'd have to build to cater for that - especially as Perdiswell caters for just 500 people a day - or how many buses we would have to subsidise, to convey rush-hour drivers, passengers, and children to school and work.

And perhaps Mr Lea will tell us how the thousands of the buses we will need to replace "the car" will negotiate the narrowed carriageway in Foregate Street.

With Perdiswell having to be supported by £200,000 of city council tax payers' money every year, perhaps Mr Lea would indicate how a vastly expanded park-and-ride system is to be funded by city council tax payers, who have seen council taxes go up by 46 per cent in four years.

Or explain how commerce in our city will be maintained, when motorists can hop to Merry Hill, in the time it takes to wait for a bus?

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.