I HAVE been reading Hugh Jaeger’s letter on buses in Oxford city, (July 16) above. I agree with what he says and as an older person the distance between bus stops concerns me very much.
If we could have through buses before, surely we could have them now? They are expensive to run but with bus travel in the city being as expensive as it is and very good levels of passenger usage, the companies could afford to run the through buses again.
I am more worried that the city council does not take into account the impact that any increase in population or jobs would have on our public transport.
There is a finite limit to the number of buses that can bring people in and out of Oxford and that limit has more or less been reached.
If Oxford is to remain the lovely city it is, we need some research done on this matter before the city planners allow any more large building schemes to be accepted.
If we did not have lots of streams and medieval buildings there would be solutions but as it is I don’t want to be stuffed into a snarl-up of buses that can’t take me where I need to go.
SARAH LASENBY
Tawney Street
East Oxford
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