I SHARE Andy D’Agorne’s frustration with transport across York (Letters, October 25).

As a city councillor I invested a huge amount of time trying to bring vision and best practice ideas.

From the stunningly successful tram networks of French cities, like our twin city of Dijon, to the cycle networks of Holland, Germany and Sweden hundreds of examples exist of how to create cities fit for the 21st century.

Unfortunately, York politics continue to ruin any attempt to move forwards.

How we have wasted the time. Sixty years without a Local Plan: no credible agreed vision for our future.

In a few years Germany Beck will be disgorging 600 cars a day into Fulford.

Instead of wasting time trying to resist the development with ill-advised and doomed campaigns about old battles and village greens, we should have been shaping an alternative to the traffic jams that will engulf us.

Ditto the visionless plans for York Central.

There are only two ways to engage with the future: you can either shape it or be steamrollered by it.

It is tragic that our beautiful city is blindly drowning in a sea of cars when there are healthier, less polluting, and cleaner alternatives.

Christian Vassie, Blake Court, Wheldrake, York