I SEE that, yet again, Ian Hudspeth has been dishing out his advice on how best to deal with the congestion caused by all the so-called improvements to the roads in and around Oxford.

Just because he can hop on a train to get into town or work from home he arrogantly assumes, and advises, everyone else can either use public transport or “log in” in the comfort of their own living room.

Does he not realise that some of us work anti-social shift patterns, when no public transport is available?

Some people also live in rural areas but work in town and, due largely to the policies supported by Mr Hudspeth and his party, have had subsidies for public transport withdrawn. So yet again no viable method other than their own transport is available.

In addition how do people in the retail trade sell their wares?

From the attitude of the committee responsible for all the current chaos you would never guess that one of the city’s major employers for the last hundred or so years is in fact a motor manufacturer.

Indeed such seems to be their hatred of automobiles, with increasing parking fees for decreasing spaces and controlled parking zones charging to park on public highways in addition to road tax, I am amazed they have not decided to introduce checkpoints and Tank Traps on all the major routes into Oxford.

CHRIS BATLEY
Barrett Street, Oxford