LIKE Patricia Palaeologina (Letters, February 13), I also attended the bus users’ forum at the central library.

I filled in my questionnaire, signed it and placed it into the relevant box. At the start of the following formal meeting, one questionnaire was taken out of the box to start the ball rolling.

After that it became a free-for-all; the one with the loudest voice or the longest arm was heard.

After the meeting I retrieved my questionnaire from the box and presented it to the representative from First. He listened to my complaint and promised to look into it and send me a reply. I am not living in hope.

AP Cox, Heath Close, Holgate, York.

 

• HAVING sat in on last Tuesday’s council cabinet meeting, I can only welcome Tory councilor George Barton’s condemnation of York’s privatised bus services, which his Government of the 1980s inflicted across the country, during the disastrous Thatcher regime.

Perhaps he will soon join with me in calling for what should be public services to serve the public, rather than the bus companies’ private shareholders, which has been the result of the Tories’ “bus deregulation” shambles.

Coun Sandy Fraser (Labour), Micklegate ward.

 

• On Wednesday, February 13, at 11.55am, my husband and I, along with approximately four other people, were waiting in Clifford Street for the No 15 bus to South Bank.

The bus appeared, and we indicated that we wanted it. However, the bus drove straight past us. We were left wondering how this could happen, when Clifford Street is the terminus for the No 15.

Could First York please explain how this could happen, as we are left puzzled? If you are going to provide a bus service, please provide a service.

Mrs Carole Pearson, Trafalgar Street, South Bank, York.