Sir – With regard to Noam Bleicher’s letter (July 4). In 1963, yes, it worked with Queen Street closed to traffic with far fewer buses then, so who says it’s going to work with even more buses on the roads now?

Queen Street is a dangerous ‘mish-mash’ today when some buses suddenly drive into it today, (the Oxford Tube buses to London frequently from early evening and all day Sunday). Visitors see it as a pedestrian-only street, then suddenly a bus appears behind them.

If a joined-up system is required through city centre streets, what has happened to the idea of a mixture of light trams and walking areas, sensibly worked out between present bus companies and the council, that led to so much correspondence in these columns a while back.

Some local people may remember an open invitation by the council to come and demonstrate their ideas about solving the problem of Oxford city streets and its traffic problems held in Modern Art Oxford building some years ago.

It appears the valuable and sensible ideas by local people must have fallen on deaf ears. Yes, Noam there is a great opportunity now that a major thing such as the newly-revamped Westgate is becoming a reality, that the council and bodies concerning this project get the whole of Oxford’s mobilisation of people sorted out, because this exciting new area for the city, will also affect city centre roads, as well as that area.

Peter Berry, Oxford