I HAVE just received a very prompt response from City of York Council to my objection to the proposed installation of a bollard in Straylands Grove.

I hope many other people made their objections known and, when the time comes, will make every effort to attend the meeting when it is arranged.

I urge transport chief Peter Evely to cut out the waffle and to tell us where he thinks the "alternative routes much further away" will actually be (Evening Press, February 15).

I live on a road that was highlighted by Mr Evely as being part of the area which will be affected "in the short term" by the increase in traffic caused by the further development of Monks Cross.

How short term will it be and what are the "area-wide benefits" to which he refers?

The only one that I can see is that a highly privileged few will have their own customised route to Monks Cross and all points east, while the rest of us have to live with Mr Evely's "pie in the sky".

Tony Fraser,

Hempland Avenue, York.

Updated: 11:01 Thursday, March 17, 2005