NOW that one can see and measure the width available for passengers waiting and alighting from bus stops in Frideswide Square they are ridiculously narrow.

The gap between the kerb and the wing of the bus shelter is 1.35m in Frideswide but at least 1.6m on bus stops in Banbury Road. The total waiting width where the planters are is 2m but in Banbury Road it is at least 2.8m.

How highly paid road engineers and planners as well the lead members on both the Labour city and Tory county councils could allow this to happen is unbelievable. An accident is waiting to happen due to the congestion that will be caused by buses drawing in as close as possible to the kerb, where there are people with buggies and others with luggage getting on and off the buses.

I wrote to the county road engineers with my suspicions at a time when the planters could have been repositioned but was rebuffed with the explanation that 40m length was sufficient space for passengers to wait. Sadly the person who replied seemed not to understand the difference between length and width.

There is plenty of space to give everyone a fair share, pedestrians, cyclists and bus passengers.

ADRIAN ROSSER
Botley Road, Oxford