Sir – The parochial move to charge London commuters using the Thornhill park-and-ride is typical of the Oxfordshire councils’ money-grasping ways.

Eleven hours’ parking is just enough to be uncertain of making it back in time after a typical 9-5 day in London.

Using Oxford traffic as a pretext to extract more money from hard-working Oxfordshire council taxpayers who have to work in London is particularly disingenuous.

It’s a trip I make regularly and once used the park-and-ride for.

The method of doing this is via a deliciously expensive piece of equipment which will have the high visibility-jacketed clipboard wielders of parking enforcement quivering with excitement. Meanwhile, people will be desperately trying to slot £3 into a machine at 6.30am before their bus goes without them, trying not to think of the extra £700 a year the council has had off them. The unanimous enthusiasm shown by all the political groups for fleecing Oxfordshire’s residents every which way they can shows what a tragic lot we have to choose from.

Chris Shipton, Headington