THE rising bollard has always been a failure ('Great barrier grief', September 10) because there is an easy way round it.

Go up St Saviour's Place and along St Saviourgate to come out at the end of Colliergate and you're in the "restricted zone".

Yvonne Powell-Wainwright,

Main Street,

Fulford,

York.

Updated: 10:35 Tuesday, September 14, 2004