I READ your article on travelling on foot - or otherwise - to the proposed York City stadium at Huntington (December 15).

I visited Hamburg last year and enjoyed watching the local football team play against Wolfburger - home of Volkswagen car - in an amazing new out-of-town stadium.

Every match ticket bought included a public transport travel pass to get you there and back by rail or bus.

So there's the challenge to our "joined-up thinking" in York. The local bus company could help with sponsorship or perhaps charge 50p to travel.

Or, everyone who goes to the game would get a free pass as part of their match ticket to use York's buses to the game and back or, even better, use the buses all day.

More people go the games, more people use the buses. Everyone wins.

Bob Scrase,

Kyme Street,

Bishophill, York.

...CERTAIN local councillors have behaved like little Hitlers, but since when did they have the power to dictate how people travel to and from a football match? I assume this is a wind-up.

I can see the need for travel plans in relation to crowd and traffic management, but not by the fascist methods mooted in the Evening Press.

I shall continue to walk the 30 minutes I do right now to watch football and guess what? It will be to Bootham Crescent!

Stephen Lee,

Fylingdale Avenue,

Shipton Road, York.

Updated: 10:04 Friday, December 19, 2003