SADLY, Cllr Peter Dew deliberately asks the wrong question “who will pay for the electric buses in York?”, implying further pollution is a necessary and unavoidable price to be paid for York’s residents (Letters, September 15).

Far from being simplistic, Cllr Andy D’Agorne raises a profoundly important issue which raises two questions.

The first is “who will pay for the continued pollution and congestion in York?”

The answer as it stands is not only ourselves, our children and grandchildren, but most often those who live in the most built up, congested and deprived areas.

That triggers the second question which should be: “How do we pay for the electric buses in York?”

Not the magic money tree Cllr Dew invokes for sure, but certainly it is not beyond the wit of man to find a fair and progressive scheme of business and personal taxation that protects those most endangered by congestion and pollution.

So rather than throw his hands in the air in a mood of dismal hopelessness, Cllr Dew should be more constructive in proposing solutions rather than castigating fellow members.

Richard Bridge, Holgate Road, York