REGARDING public transport in our cities and towns (ie buses), the answer is not trams, as has been suggested on and of for some years on your letters pages.

No, we must go back to the past, trolleybuses. Yes, more or less silent, no fumes and no clang-clanging from nasty tramlines, the deadly enemy of all cyclists.

I travelled on them back in the ’50s in London. I presume that they disappeared in favour of diesel engine power because then diesel oil, a by-product of petrol production, was dirt cheap – unlike today, after one unfuturistic Government after another has stacked crippling non-productive tax increase after tax increase on the stuff, backed up by greedy, world supply sources.

So, how do we go about all this?

First overhead cables – not much disruption there.

Then we take all the existing diesel-engine powered buses, remove engine, then convert to the electric system as in today’s latest technology.

TONY O’GORMAN
Main Street
Hethe