PATIENTS, doctors, nurses and motorists will give a collective groan.

One of York's knottiest traffic problems is set to continue for a few months more after contractors building a two-storey hospital car park went bust.

Anyone wishing to enter York Hospital, or just drive past it, knows all about this nightmare.

At peak times the entrance is jammed with cars. Appointments are missed and blood pressures soar because of the battle to secure a parking space as rare as a tropical disease.

The chaos should end when the new car park opens. Now construction is on hold. We wish the project a speedy recovery.

Updated: 10:49 Friday, June 24, 2005