MAYBE if more employers had implemented enlightened travel-to-work perks like City of York Council, York wouldn't be faced with a massive annual clean up bill for floods and gales. I am willing to bet that the clean up bill due to climate change is far higher than the cost of any travel perks.
Car drivers have cost us all much more than the £50,000 the council shells out. The terminally car-dependant are the real culprits.
Graham Horne,
Beech Avenue,
York.
... and pains
I READ Mike Usherwood's brief note in the paper with amusement ('Two big whoppers', Letters, March 2).
On Saturday, I discovered the council's latest diabolical plan to make life difficult for those of us who merely live in York, rather than being money-paying tourists.
The counting mechanism in Piccadilly car park seems to be set so that more cars enter than there are spaces for. This results in queues of cars snaking round the car park, unable to park!
Very clever - we gave up and went home.
Hilary McElroy,
Beckfield Lane,
York.
Updated: 11:20 Saturday, March 09, 2002
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