Sir – Mr Babic (Letters, June 11) surely has a point when he complains about the size of bus fares in our car-hating city.

I have only two suggestions for him:

1: Take the car, anyway. It’s only 70p to park in Summertown

2: Get to the age of 60 as quickly as you can. Then you can sit on the buses for free, and smugly watch younger passengers paying out exorbitant sums of money.

It’s interesting in an age when we are being urged to take public transport.

If you make a single journey from Wolvercote to Blackbird Leys via the city centre, it costs you £3.60.

In Berlin, for example, you can buy a day ticket for slightly less than three times that sum which will allow you unlimited travel by all of bus, underground and overground railways over an area roughly 40 times the size of Oxford. For a few extra euros, you can extend it to Potsdam.

No wonder they held the post-Second World War conference there. They couldn’t have afforded the fares if they’d held it in Oxford.

Nigel Clarke, Oxford