I read with interest the article Getting County Moving (Oxford Mail, May 1).

Hover rails, tidal bus lanes and trams around Oxford – are these just pipe dreams? £300m for the first phase of one scheme and £35m for another – where is all this money coming from to pay for it?

Considering the lack of money to repair our roads, it beggars belief that those in charge of the county council can contemplate such costly schemes. We all know only too well that with all the debates and reports produced from planning consultants the cost of any such scheme that was to go ahead would probably double.

We only have to look at the increasing costs of that white elephant HS2. It would seem that since first being spoken of, the cost has risen from £30bn to £50bn before the work has really got under way.

I am just quoting reports one sees in the press or hears on the TV.

In these times of austerity where there is less and less money given to local authorities by central government, thus forcing local councils to cut back on social services and suchlike where the ordinary folk have to suffer. How on earth can a local authority find such sums of money to spend like this?

MICHAEL CLARKE
Lewell Avenue
Old Marston
Oxford