The Water End access road into the York Central site has serious implications for the existing junctions at Clifton Green and Poppleton Road, for local residents and pupils at Poppleton Road school and all those who use Clifton Bridge to get from one side of the city to the other without using the outer ring road or going through town.

What then will happen when the proposed 2,500 houses and apartments and 112,000 square metres of commercial space are served and serviced by this one road?

If you think Marble Arch is a problem it will be as nothing to the problems in store if this development goes ahead as currently envisaged.

R J Cook,

Lynden Way,York

Closure of tunnel is such a madcap idea

Motorists in York have put up with many roads closed off with bollards and chicanes and also have to cope with unneeded traffic lights, for example, three sets at the junction of Holgate Road and Blossom Street.

Road humps also result in stopping the free flow of traffic and create more air pollution.

And now we have the stupid suggestion of closing the Leeman Road tunnel to two-way traffic.

If this mad idea is implemented, chaos will ensue, just as it did when traffic was cut to one lane at Water End, resulting in a back-up almost to Boroughbridge Road – and all for the sake of non-existent bicycles using the inside lane.

The Water Lane scheme had to be reversed, much to the annoyance of Paul Hepworth who is so anti-car.

We seem also to have an anti-car council, to keep coming up with all these madcap ideas of closing roads, which just make things worse.

Leeman Road should not be closed, especially as Micklegate is being reduced to one way.

Mrs WP Carter

Marston Crescent

Acomb, York

How can you justify such big payments?

Before a spade has been dug in the ground on the proposed York Central development, £5.38 million has already been spent and a further £2.39 million is needed for more design work (The Press, August 27). S

urely all this vast amount of money isn’t going on consultants’, architects’ and surveyors’ fees?

This is public money, so the public should be told how much each recipient has been paid and what they did to justify these payments.

Geoff Robb,

Hunters Close,

Dunnington York

Where are facilities for new residents?

Perhaps I`m wrong but as more and more houses are being built there is no mention of vital facilities.

Where will these people find a doctor? Where will the children go to school?

Is the sewage system being updated and enlarged.

Isn’t it time after such a dry summer that new reservoirs were made?

Sadly this all means using our beautiful countryside which is disastrous for our already decreasing wild life. Think of the hedgehog situation to name one.

Farmland will be reduced when it needs to increase if a bigger population is to be catered for. Does anyone really care?

Mrs Eunice Birch,

Coombs Close,

Sutton-on-the-Forest,

York

‘Central’ site always known as Teardrop

I have lived in and around York for over 50 years, and have always known the area behind the railway station as “The Teardrop”.

I cannot comprehend how an area which does NOT include the Minster, the Guildhall, Shambles, the Eye of York, or Clifford’s Tower, and which is outside the city walls, is now being referred to as ‘York Central’.

James Gilpin,

Valentine Close,

Pocklington