WHY is it that whatever party is in control of City of York Council, they come up with hare-brained schemes that eventually cost the council taxpayers wasted money?

Do they spend all their time sat in their ivory towers and pluck such schemes out of thin air without considering the consequences?

Schemes such as the Lendal Bridge closure, Coppergate, Kings Square, Shambles Market and the installation and possible removal of 20mph speed limits and the fountain in Parliament Street. This at a time when they cannot find money to subsidise essential services.

The money spent on these schemes would provide funding to keep local bus services running, the money spent on Kings Square alone would have provided ten years funding for the 13A bus service to continue.

Instead the council are prepared to cut off whole communities in order to build white elephants as a memorial to themselves.

AP Cox, Heath Close, Holgate, York