REGARDING the 77% drop in motorists ignoring a new bus gate (Evening Times, October 14), Alistair Watson said:

"It is important we work to ensure public transport services are given priority and this is respected by the majority of drivers."

Well, it doesn't seem to me to be a sensible idea to build bus stops over the inside lane of a two-lane road, meaning that buses park in the only lane left, the outside lane, to pick up passengers, thereby blocking the road to all other traffic.

It seems hypocritical of the council to justify the bus gate by saying there is a reduction in harmful traffic emissions as a result of it, when they are causing an increase in harmful traffic emissions in other areas of the city by causing traffic jams behind buses.

Ronnie Simpson posted online

Ladies success

WELL done to Glasgow City Ladies FC. Eight championships in a row plus success in Europe.

And it has all been done without the baggage and nastiness attached to their male Old Firm counterparts.

More power to you ladies, keep up the success and carry on promoting the city.

JP West End

Action on lunch

REGARDING Pupils face playground ban on cooked takeaway lunches (Evening Times, October 13) - given that the Scottish diet is regarded as one of the worst in the developed world, what's wrong with discouraging young people from eating "fast food"?

I went to high school in the '70s and the standard fare for those who "ate out" at lunchtime was a hot pie and a doughnut. Hardly healthy choices.

James Gray British Columbia, Canada

Food challenge

DO WE really think young folk are going to take kindly to being told what to eat and where to eat it?

Of course not. It will be just another challenge to them, like a red rag to a bull.

Save your time and our money and stop trying to dictate to others how we should all live.

Frank Logan, Glasgow