SIR - What is the real price of cheap parking? I'd encourage councillors to spend £25,000 on studying options for providing less parking instead of more.
Usage will always rise to meet capacity anyway, so gradually reducing the parking available in the city centre will force us to walk and cycle or catch the bus or train into town.
Councillors will carp about lost ticket income, but I think the dual carriageway and 1960s architectural horrors that now crowd our Cathedral should be ripped out and replaced by a wonderful, open, car-free square with grass, trees, flowers and audible birdsong.
Worcester could and should be the top visitor attraction in the Midlands, but our civic treasures - cricket, racing, riverside, parks, Cathedral, Commandery, canals and new university - are rendered inaccessible and invisible by choking jams, tarmac raceways and ugly car parks. Enough madness! Yes - I'll admit it, I drive into the centre of town, but I can, so I, like most, do. If we were collectively less lazy, a city of breathtaking beauty would emerge from the noise and fumes.
ANDREW GUY,
Whittington
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