Last updated 10:26, Friday, 04 July 2008

I question the accuracy of the news report stating that fare-paying passengers are left standing due to buses full of free-travelling pensioners (The Cumberland News, June 27).

Is it not the case that it is simply those last in the queue and those waiting en-route who are left standing?

Surely fare-paying passengers are not singled out to be left behind?

I got rid of my car when I retired – quite a green and socially-responsible action.

I am particularly thrilled with my bus pass as, being single and childless, I at last get to enjoy a ‘freebie’ in life.

In my early working life in various large cities, being left standing as overcrowded buses sailed by was the norm and prompted many a young person (including me) into getting a car.

The answer is more buses, and subsidised at that.

How else will we persuade people that life is possible without a car?

MISS SM TOWERS
Cross Lane
Standingstone
Wigton