SIR - So one of the best ideas yet for sustainable transport in Worcester won't even reach the drawing board.

Getting to the centre from the west is one of the city's biggest transportation challenges and could be alleviated by an unmanned station on the Kays site in Bromyard Road incorporating a multi-storey park and ride facility.

Instead, inhabitants have to be content with some useless electronic road signs on the arterial approaches to the city, an inept scheme for a bus lane in Newtown Road, and a futile footbridge from Lower Wick to Diglis for the convenience of the county council cabinet member for the environment and his neighbours.

Those who risk the nauseating experience of reading Worcestershire's Local Transport Plan will have found that the aim is "to deliver a transport system within Worcestershire which allows people to easily access the facilities that they need for their day-to-day life in a sustainable and healthy way".

What a joke!

Although the county council is very adept at trotting out all of the political rhetoric the truth of the matter is that they are simply incapable of putting their money where their mouths are.

Robert Hartwright, Worcester.