Sir – A really good bus service is one of the major advantages of living in Oxford and those who do not understand this have not experienced the inadequacies of public transport in many British cities, or have never tried living without the advantage of owning a car.

The idea that we should dismantle this general amenity of the ordinary citizen in favour of affluence and privilege is an extraordinarily backward notion.

The London buses are a great boon to life for the generality of city residents, especially the young, and your correspondent’s plan to send them off for miles round the ring road, while we drive out in cars to meet them is clearly absurd.

Park-and-ride is meant to reduce car traffic in the city, not increase it.

Arthur Bennett, East Oxford