SIR - According to the West Yorkshire Combined Authority it will take five years to plan and build a new bus station to replace the crumbling Bradford Interchange (T&A, November 6).

The existing bus station had a lifespan of 50 years which has now been reached.

Why therefore were the Combined Authority not planning for this eventuality years ago?

Surely very remiss, to put it mildly.

Bob Watson, Baildon