Sir – With reference to Gary Brimson’s letter (January 31) You don’t need massively wide streets to run a tidy tram system. He mentions Bordeaux, France, but there are many other cities in the world that operate tram systems that pass through narrower streets than the suggested ones that we have.

With trams neatly operating from carefully selected tram stations, being fed into by buses, and vehicles, this alone would stop the councils having to pay out on expensive pothole repairs, with less vehicles on the roadways the trams would be mainly using.

Gary mentions that there has not been a radical public infrastructure updating in Oxford since 1930.

Isn’t it time then that the councils/ highways department opened their eyes to an overdue study/inquiry into Oxford’s present abysmal traffic situation, and giving a ‘tidy’ tram system food for thought?

Peter Berry, Oxford