Sir – The images in the Transform Oxford press release look attractive enough, but there is very little detail. Streets crowded with pedestrians are shown, with no mention of how they might have arrived at the city centre.

Currently around 50 per cent of people arrive at the city centre by bus –– but no mention is made of the drastic cuts which will be made to bus services in order to achieve general pedestrianisation. Will these people still choose to travel into Oxford? The press release is a triumph of style over substance.

In your editorial there was mention of the need to engage the bus companies. Why the bus companies specifically? It is bus passengers –– thousands of them per hour –– who choose to use buses along the high street as a quick and convenient way into town. Is no consideration to be made of them? These are ordinary people living in places like Headington, Cowley and Barton who choose to use the bus to travel to work, to visit the shops or to catch a train at Oxford Station.

It is to serve these people that we have a frequent service along the High Street, not to suit bus companies.

With services cut and people forced to change to bendy buses to do this, thousands will have this choice denied on a daily basis. They need to make their views known to councillors.

The project is being championed by councillor Mitchell. Such a radical “reshaping” of a transport system is not without precedent –– does councillor Mitchell want to be known as the Beeching of the buses?

Noam Bleicher (Mr), Chairman, Oxford branch Bus Users UK