Letter: In Brief

Sir: It's a bit rich for Tony Blair to order John Prescott to improve transport performance (report, 6 July) when Mr Prescott produced an admirable White Paper on transport last year. The failure has been in not implementing it, or parts of it, sufficiently quickly. In the first instance, Mr Blair might think of expanding London bus lanes and introduce legislation making it an endorsable offence for cars to transgress them. Matters would soon improve in many parts of London with a resulting reduction in car use.

DONALD DAVIES

London EC4