SIR – The decisions that John Hobbs, county transport supremo makes are crucial for Worcester’s future.

However, he clearly doesn’t understand Worcester’s traffic problems.

His plans to accommodate movements of thousands more people on the city’s roads include seven major bus routes into the city as well as a new city bridge. These cornerstones of his policy are flawed. Mr Hobbs should drive along each one of these routes several times at rush hour. He may then realise that Worcester’s antiquated road system is incapable of being expanded to cater for additional bus lanes.

The plan for a second city bridge is ludicrous and won’t help the city’s chronic congestion problems.

If Worcester has to suffer massive housing expansion then, unfortunately, the ring road needs completing and a new road bridge building to the north. No objective person could disagree.

Mr Hobbs needs to come up with a workable plan for Worcester’s road infrastructure or come out and say that Worcester is not suitable for massive housing expansion.

MP Mike Foster also needs to get a grip of this, otherwise his only legacy will be a city ruined by overdevelopment, gridlocked roads and illegal levels of pollution.

TIM MYERS, Worcester.