I read the letter from S Dawson (Teen bus challenge, The Press, March 24), asking First York to come up with an answer to the challenge: “What do you offer our young adults, in full-time further education, in the city?”

Well, assuming S Dawson is not challenging First York to offer these “young adults in further education” jobs as bus-drivers, he/she must be challenging First York to offer the “young adults in further education” some sort of subsidised bus use for them (the young adults) to get to and from their chosen seat of learning.

York is quite a small city, with nowt very far from owt else, so why can’t these “young adults” buy themselves bikes and cycle to and from wherever they live to their chosen seat of learning?

When I were an apprentice of nobbut 15 tender years (not, tha will notice, “a young adult”) at Cooke Troughton and Simms (scientific and optical instrument makers), in Haxby Road, I used to cycle to and from New Earswick (fair dos, not exactly a massive distance) to get to work for a 7.30am start, home at dinner-time (noon), back again for 1pm and then home again at 5pm.

On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays I’d bike home, have a quick tea then back on my bike to cycle to Canon Lee School for night school (now called “further education”) from 7pm until 9pm. Back home to New Earswick for a bite of supper and so to bed. This was done in all weathers too!

Why cycle? Simple! There was no bus service between New Earswick and Canon Lee School.

So there we are, S Dawson, First York and all those “young adults in further education” a simple answer to the vexatious problem of how these (young) people can get from where they live, to where they want to study.

Phil Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge.

Cycle ‘obsession’ It is obvious Coun Steve Galloway has an obsession to turn all the roads and footpaths in York into cycle paths, hence the appalling traffic tailbacks, delays and utter confusion that currently prevails in and around York.

Many of my friends and colleagues now, sadly, go elsewhere to shop, so depriving York of much-needed income in these hard times.

Surely some of the colossal sums of our taxpayers’ money would be much better spent providing some much-needed recreational facilities for our young people; a multi-sports indoor complex, for instance.

With the General Election upon us it gives one food for thought that if Liberal Democrats can create so much mayhem in a city like York, what could they do if they were running the country?

Mr J Hudson, Fairway, York.