ANXIOUS to repeat its success with parking charges, City of York Council has come up with an even wackier idea.

Replace the 24-hour public taxi rank at the railway station with space in a private car park, but exclude the taxis from the car park during busy times morning and afternoon.

Doesn't the council realise that is when we want access to a taxi?

Try telling a visitor that reducing taxi provision improves their journey. Time for the proverbial monkey and typewriter to produce an improvement to the madness laughingly described as a transport strategy.

Andrea Driver,

Haughton Road,

Burton Stone Lane,

York.

Updated: 11:10 Monday, January 24, 2005