AS another year slips by, I wonder whether there is still time for you to accept two nominations for The Press 2006 Goofer Of The Year Award?

Coincidentally, both my nominations involve York Station.

The first is to whoever was behind the redesigned "gyratory" system at Tea Room Square, adjacent to the entrance to the short-stay car park.

If it were possible to measure road rage here on something akin to the Richter scale, then the average innocent driver would score somewhere in the middle-to-high nines.

The second goes to whoever nominates the arrival platforms of incoming GNER trains at the station.

Based on my four recent visits, all I can say is beware.

There is the last-minute dash across the bridge, where everyone is given belated information of a platform change. Cue anxiety, damaged suitcases and jostling for position.

Everyone is waiting with their bags at the declared platform, when the train slips in unashamedly at another. Passengers are then invited to proceed "urgently" to the new platform. Cue heart attacks all round.

Having seen both of these platform pantos acted out over the Christmas period (when the station is used heavily by older, long-distance travellers), it does make me think that the introduction of medical staff may be a useful precaution in future.

G Ricer, West Lilling, York.