THREE of your letter writers in recent weeks have used up a lot of space to complain about me, about the Green Party and about who did or did not support a road in Lancaster in 1992.

What is really interesting about this discussion is that all three have deliberately chosen to focus on trivia and to steer well clear of the important issues.

If they were really interested in sorting out problems and improving the quality of life of local residents then like local Greens they would be up in arms about the fact that in this country we have the worst transport system in Europe, the highest fares, the worst congestion and almost the worst record for child pedestrian casualties and deaths.

New Labour have made a dog's dinner of transport and every day they make it worse.

I can see why Richard Newman Thompson and Ray Hill want to talk about me but we would all benefit if they spent more time talking to the accident prone Minister of Transport, Stephen Byers, and asked him to give Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham a world class public transport system and an end to the misery of delay and cost of what we have to put up with at the moment.

Finally and for the record local greens did support a road proposal in 1992 and the Green Party didn' t for the simple reason that no one thought this was an issue on which the Lancaster Party should take a view.

John Whitelegg Lancaster and District Green Party