SIR - During last week's half-term holiday, we decided to leave the car at home and take our two daughters to Worcester by train from Evesham.
The 20-minute journey (standard cheap-day return) of only two stops (Pershore and Worcester) cost the four of us £17.10.
We are always being told how we should ditch our cars and leave them at home, use public transport and think more about what we can do to help preserve our environment, yet the cost of local train travel hardly encourages us.
Particularly in the school holidays, it would encourage more people to use public transport (the carriage we were on was near empty both ways), if there was a much reduced shoppers/visitors ticket available to the city.
As it is, even allowing for the cost of petrol and car parking fees, it would have been far cheaper to take our car.
It is hardly much of an incentive, is it?
Helen Donovan, Evesham.
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