Howard Croft column: Latest example of council idiocy lands on my desk

Residents of Sudbury, Suffolk, have been asked to complete a survey regarding the moving of the bus station.

When I retired and settled in North Yorkshire I imagined that I would be a frequent visitor to York, a city I got to know during my childhood and, later, when I lived there briefly. It has not turned out that way. I seldom go there '“ once or twice a year, perhaps '“ but a week ago I made an unscheduled trip there to buy a pair of gloves from the National Trust shop in Goodramgate.

The car park I usually make for is the one by Clifford’s Tower. It is expensive (£2.40 per hour), but Mrs Croft likes to park as near to the tills as possible and several interim trips back to the car are usually required to drop cargo. What I do object to is the fact that the aisles are too narrow and the bays too small for modern cars. The layout is ideal for my Morris Minor and was probably designed about the same time as my car – in the Sixties. Certainly, it is how I remember it from the early seventies when I lived in York.

I have no time for the so-called Park and Ride facilities and have never used one. This is in part because of the demands of loading next year’s charity shop donations, but mainly because I don’t like the name – much as I dislike “pick-n-mix”, “mix-and-match”, “wash-and-go” , slogans produced by the foolish teenagers employed in the advertising industry. I refuse to encourage them by using their products.