CHRISTIAN Vassie advocates returning trams – with all their required track and power cable infrastructure – to York, of all places (The Press, August 27)?

Does York have the wide highways and boulevards of Melbourne, Australia to accommodate the tram? Hardly!

A medieval road layout in the city centre and near environs is the reality. There is not enough road space for existing car demand, yet Mr Vassie wants to superimpose trams.

Might a similar pollution reduction be achieved by rolling out more electric buses? Well, what seems to be a good idea would be a better still, if only their performance – battery viability – matched the specs.

Effectively the same principle as trams was intelligently offered by the promised provision of trains on the Scarborough line, serving stations in Haxby and the hospital. But was this political promise delivered?

Nick Blitz, Wilkinsons Court, Easingwold.