LETTER: We rely on the buses

I write about the Brylaine buses. I was on the bus the day Carol Hudson and granddaughter Daisy took photographs of our crowded bus.

It happens every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

I was left standing right from Park Close and I was staggering and holding on to the bars.

I was very frightened.

Carol and Daisy offered me their seats but I couldn’t get to the back of the bus and climb up the steps.

I need my trolley to help me walk. Like Carol said, a lot of us used those early buses. Myself and my neighbours used to have early doctors’ and nurses’ appointments but no, Mr Wheatley doesn’t care about us pensioners getting back early out of the heat into our cool homes.

The buses used to drop us outside the Munro Medical Centre. These buses are our only means of transport. We cannot afford taxi prices.

I heard Carol talking to the bus driver and he said “If they choose to get on the bus and stand up, it’s their look out if they fall”.

Well Brylaine and Malcolm Wheatley it would be you that would be paying a lot of compensation out and there would be a lot of witnesses if an accident happened.

So, come on – don’t you have elderly parents or relations? We all need public transport to get about.

My neighbours and I use your buses five or six times a week to shop and talk to people. If not, we would go crazy looking at four walls.

Well done Carol and Daisy for trying to help us elderly people. There ought to be more caring people in this world like you both. Well done, we all adore you darlings.

A Ground, S Sands,
P Smith
Wygate Park