I WRITE regarding the letter from Adrian Taylor on the financial situation of bus companies, in Monday’s Oxford Mail.

I am a pensioner living in an Oxfordshire market town and use my bus pass every day.

The regular fare for this journey is £1.10 single.

Like most people I never looked at my ticket until a friend told me to do so. Recently I received two tickets with my destination marked as ‘Oxford’, the standard single fare being £3.70. Yet I have not been into Oxford for years.

Of course, they may have been genuine mistakes by the driver – after all, he or she had nothing to gain from it.

But the fact remains the bus company could claim from the council for these fares as there was no proof I did not make these journeys.

Perhaps I am not the only one this has happened to.

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