MAY I support city councillor Gill Sanders in opposing Conservative proposals on parking (Oxford Mail, April 20)?

These would give motorists free parking in the evenings and on Sundays while charging Oxford's residents for parking outside their own homes, thereby deconstructing much of Oxford's Transport Strategy.

Instead of answering your excellent editorial (Oxford Mail, April 5), David Robertson, the county council's executive member for transport, continues to offer public consultation, disingenuously claiming to be "in listening mode" (Oxford Mail, April 15) while remaining deaf to the point, repeatedly made, that the consultation has already taken place and the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected.

When Dr Dermot Roaf presents the Liberal Democrats' policy for traffic and parking in Oxford (Oxford Mail, April 14 and 19), he is strangely silent about his party's desire for parking charges for Oxford's residents.

He also ducks the challenge issued in these pages to his colleagues, Janet Fooks and Neil Fawcett (Oxford Mail, April 8 and March 31), to drop this threat to the city's residents.

Instead, they agree with the Conservatives in offering public consultation, knowing that when it took place previously, it attracted a massive protest, uniting people across different political parties, different walks of life, and different parts of Oxford. The Conservatives say that they want to end the war on the motorist while making war on Oxford's motorists.

If a second consultation were to be imposed, Oxford's motorists might well make war on the parties responsible, as they did before - unless they decide to vote to prevent this in the first place. Nigel Hiscock, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford