I AGREE with your correspondent writing under the heading “New road needed for Central plans” (Letters, January 28).

The implication is that if we cannot find a new way of getting into and out of this large York Central site any future development will be modest.

Access to the site from the south is complicated by the need to bridge the dual freight avoiding lines that run along the southern boundary.

If the freight avoiding lines are moved further north, or even alongside the main line northern section, the proposed access from Holgate Road might no longer require a new bridge.

Moving the lines might allow other points of access from Poppleton Road.

Moving the freight avoiding lines could also result in a larger development on the south side of the new lines with access from Holgate Road and Poppleton Road and a smaller development on the north side of the new lines with access from Leeman Road.

A new single bridge over the lines may be needed to connect the two developments.

The old line of the freight avoiding lines could form part of a new access road to the western bypass, the A1237.

Jeremy Taylor, Pulleyn Drive, York