YORK already has a bus station, interchange and place where commuters can catch buses ('Bus station for York idea is terminated', August 26).

Since the bus company took over part of the railway offices, buses are regularly abandoned, sorry parked, in the area of Station Rise and the Railway War Memorial. Cars belonging to the bus company and its employees are also parked on bus stops and double yellow lines in that area.

This leads to more congestion to and from the railway offices and its car parks.

If the private motorist was to do this, there would be tickets galore on windscreens, so what makes the bus company exempt in the eyes of the law?

AP Cox,

Heath Close,

Holgate, York.

Updated: 10:37 Monday, September 02, 2002