I am with CP Hird (Groves closures just shift traffic elsewhere, Letters, November 3) on the extra pollution caused by increased time-delaying traffic jams due to the Groves being blocked off.

Better to listen to a taxi driver than a car-hating cyclist.

It seems the only way to get thing backs to normal with sensible traffic plans is to vote the Lib Dem/Greens out at the first available opportunity.

Common sense would then take over at Gillygate and Bootham - and some blue badge parking would be regained.

John Zimnoch, Osbaldwick