SO THE county council is planning to stop cars using the Banbury and Woodstock roads and give priority to buses. What an idiotic idea! Who thought this up? The village idiot?

Oxford is the worst city in the country for congestion caused by buses. If anyone should pay a congestion charge, it should be bus companies. They are putting new buses on the roads every week, causing massive congestion. I and many others have seen two and sometimes three buses following one another. If this is not causing congestion on a big scale, I suggest all of the county and city councillors go to Specsavers.

Diesel engines are the biggest polluters on the road. Emissions from diesel engines are the biggest cause of health problems and cause cancer, yet all these buses going through Oxford and Headington are making Oxford a very unhealthy place to live.

Local councillors have been trying to stop people using their cars and use buses, but it won’t happen. All they do is drive to Reading, Swindon and other places. Oxford will become a ghost city.

P.S All this money being spent on London Road, Headington. Rebuilding the road will have to be done again within two years with all these buses using it.

RON LEWIS
Grays Rd
Headington