SIR - The roadworks chaos and continued closure of the Bradford Interchange has caused major problems for bus passengers in the city centre, including myself. I'm 65 with medical conditions including arthritis in my right knee which results in having to use a walking stick. Bradford Council, without consulting the majority of council tax payers, decided to transform the city centre into a giant roadworks and changing the public walkways into huge concrete nightmares for the public especially senior citizens with mobility issues.

In my opinion Bradford Council is an unaccountable Stalinist organisation with council leaders who obviously don't need to use buses or have mobility issues.

Yesterday I had to go by bus from Clayton to Shipley, they journey was a very British bureaucracy nightmare.

Faulty concrete closed the Interchange in January and it seems there is no prospect of the main bus and coach station of the city re-opening for at least another year.

Incompetent British governments decided to use racc concrete to save money but now Bradford interchange is closed as well as hundreds of schools and public buildings in the UK.

I arrived by bus from Clayton in Bradford city centre but it was purely trial and error to find the stop for buses to Shipley.

Only the UK has such an unacceptable public bus system. The British government and private sector bus companies treat bus passengers with utter contempt, especially the bus passengers of Bradford.

Neil Gardner, Park Avenue, Clayton