IN response to J V Horne, I did not say "Perdiswell is a great disaster", I said "Perdiswell was always going to be a disaster", and my letter in You Say headlined "Breaking the silence over park-and-ride" proves it.

Perdiswell has demonstrably removed an average of 171 cars per day from Droitwich Road's traffic.

Can J V Horne justify the spending of some £3m of public money, and annual losses of £261,000, which have to be paid for by Worcester City council tax payers, to remove 171 cars from our city's roads?

Or can he explain why those council taxpayers should pay £4.35 (effectively) to him, every time he buys a Perdiswell park-and-ride ticket, to relieve Worcester council taxpayers of this loss-making turkey?

Mr Horne makes much of Worcester's traffic, specifically "... along Foregate with its bumper-to-bumper traffic".

Would he explain how traffic could be any different, considering it is now confined to a reduced carriageway, in order to accommodate a bus lane that is hardly used by buses?

Would he like to personally reduce that traffic, and help reduce those parking difficulties, which he finds so "off-putting", by catching a bus from Stourport, instead of driving to Worcester, to buy a bus ticket that costs Worcester people £4.35 in subsidies?

N TAYLOR, Worcester.