Sir - When inveighing against the "vandalism" of the High Street by transport planners (Report April 11), the bursars of All Souls and University College lost a splendid opportunity to quote from A. D. Godley's 1914 poem The Motor Bus which contains the magnificent lines:

What is this that roareth thus?

Can it be a Motor Bus?

Yes, the smell, and hideous hum

Indicat Motorem Bum!

Implet in the Corn and High

Terror me Motoris Bi . . .

Sue Jenkins, Thame