Your article about the new road signs pointing to York City (Evening Press, February 24) got me thinking.

Let's base our calculations that the signs last ten years and it will cost £87,000 for ten signs.

This works out at £8,700 per sign over ten years (3,650 days) which in turn translates to 24p a day. Good value I'd say! They may tempt even more people to visit and spend money in the city.

Paul Sanderson,

Millfield Lane,

Nether Poppleton,

York.

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