Road to nowhere

There is no need to ban cars in the centre Edinburgh once a month ( Scotsman, 10 August). Scottish city centres are dying anyway. With draconian taxes on businesses , already punitive charges for parking and the upcoming Glasgow city centre ban on older vehicles

there will be few shops and fewer shoppers to visit them.

It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. No city centre has adequate public transport from all the outlying areas and low polluting cars are few and far between. This will either create a traffic problem in the immediate suburbs or chase motorists away completely.

The real question is how will the councils raise the revenue

lost by their actions as the city centre sites pay higher taxation simply because of their location?

DR GERALD EDWARDS

Broom Road, Glasgow