After reading your article on queue jumping in Botley Road, Oxford (Oxford Mail, December 4), I would like to add my personal view.

I must admit that I am a naughty boy and use the bus lane every day.

The truth is that it can take up to 30 minutes to travel from the A34 Botley interchange to the traffic lights at the park-and-ride entrance.

Although I know I am in the wrong, until the council improves the transport system throughout Oxford to ease the flow, then I feel that I have no choice but to cheat the system.

I already spend 45 minutes travelling 16 miles from Wantage to Oxford every day and cannot afford to waste another 30 minutes sitting in traffic.

The traffic queues are due to the traffic lights outside the train station.

If you are travelling along Botley Road into Oxford and wish to turn right into Oxpens Road, the traffic lights turn green, you then have to wait for the second set of lights to turn green. Then the final set hold you up, blocking the junction.

If the sequence of these lights was improved, traffic in Botley Road would flow more quickly and, therefore, people would not feel the need to use the bus lane.

I am not an expert on this subject, but every time I use Botley Road, I always queue at the train station traffic lights.

Maybe the council needs to assess this problem before spending money on another camera to fine people.

ANDY WOLTON Wantage