'Why my bus pass is only a last resort' - Your Letters plus before the flood barriers, a peaceful view of the Severn in 1965
Frustrations with public transport and the true meaning of Christmas - two of the topics in today's letters.
Why I rarely opt to travel by bus
I see there is a fresh probe into why people are reluctant to travel on buses, and still prefer to use their car.
Well I can summarise why, as a pensioner, I have a bus pass, but I only use it as a last resort. For a start, I tried to travel to Stourbridge a few weeks ago, to save paying too park. I waited for the bus, and guess what it was missing, and so was the one after this bus.
Two buses missing on a rainy day, no bus shelter, standing there froze, dodging cars trying to soak you, where potholes were.
If you are lucky too catch a bus, you are driven by drivers who are incapable of giving you a safe ride ,by late braking, roaring away at speed, cornering like someone on Top Gear.
Not all bus drivers, do this but 80 per cent, do. Then there are screaming children and people who cough and sneeze all over the person in front of them.
When I was at school, in the trolley bus era, you had bus conductors, you felt safe on a bus. Also they knew how to drive.
