Ban cars in city

THE news that a new bridge may be built over the River Dee in Aberdeen, while welcome, is to my mind only a short-term solution to traffic problems within the city.

We are already being told that, even if the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route is built, this might only result in a 4 per cent traffic reduction within the city itself.

To do nothing about the city’s traffic is, of course, not an option given predictions of an increasing population, but to choose the wrong option will only result in future generations having to sort out the mess.

Banning cars from city centres would be a start.

Robert T Smith

Braeside Terrace

Aberdeen

IN A country where reducing carbon emissions has been made a goal of public policy, I was shocked to discover how unjoined-up our public transport system sometimes is.

If you are trying to reach Aberdeen airport by public transport, one would assume the obvious plan is to go by rail to Dyce, whence it is only about a mile to the airport. Imagine my frustration on arriving at the windswept station to see no signs of how to access said airport. There is a bus, but no directions to it; there are taxis but ditto. And on Sundays, there is no bus.

I can only assume those who might plan for these things always go by car. How green is that?

Antony Black

Blackness Avenue

Dundee