AFTER yet another incident in Chapelfields ('Knife threat to York bus driver,' January 15) I fail to understand why bus drivers frequently use this area to "kill time" - especially during the evenings.

Last Friday I was a passenger on the Number 1 bus - the driver waited at the stop for approximately ten minutes.

Later I learned that a couple of hours earlier a driver had been threatened with a knife.

Having buses standing for long periods of time will only exacerbate an already fraught situation and put drivers and passengers at risk.

There must be a more suitable place for buses to wait on route.

Miss Kirsty Pearson,

Almsford Drive,

Acomb, York.

Updated: 09:27 Thursday, January 20, 2005