Sir – With regard to Keith Dancey’s question (Letters, November 29). Replacing seats in trams with the luxury bench-type seats surely will increase the capacity of seating, compared to the terrible waste of non-seating we witness in the buses we have on the routes in Oxford today.

For example, often seating capacity is limited with the useless high luggage racks on many buses (the racks are often too high up for passengers to struggle with their heavy suitcases to put them up on to these ridiculously high-placed racks).

And often there are just two front seats around these areas. Next space is for a wheelchair and one buggy, that is fine and to be expected — although the area allowed for one buggy only, takes up empty space where easily two could be allowed — again wasting seating capacity. And we end up with a bus less than the next half with seating. Very badly designed for city commuters to cope with. I recently travelled on a bus that had high, huge luggage rack space in the front half (not one suitcase occupying same). Then I counted just seven seats only installed in this badly-designed area.

And then towards the second half of the bus I counted about only a capacity of 12 more seats. Hopelessly designed to cope with a city.

Luxury well-planned bench-type designed seating, will surely allow more seating capacity than this badly-designed, space-wasting, mish-mash that we have at present. Other beautiful cities, like ours, have adopted the quieter, less polluting, less individual street-clogging-up system that we endure at present, with a more conformed tidy system of the tram.

Peter Berry, Oxford