I am a pensioner aged 92. I am always most grateful for the bus pass facilities granted to us old and infirm pensioners at local bus stops.

The bus passengers who use the more modern bus shelters which have helpful seating and bus time arrival information times are fortunate.

But last weekend I had just missed a bus departing from Peachcroft roundabout. I had to wait for 20 minutes before a bus arrived to take me the short two minute ride to the Boundary House so that I could then, with some difficulty, walk to the newsagent nearby. This delay is abnormal but can often happen and, in any case, any delay beyond 10 minutes is, for me, too long. I cannot walk that far.

My eyesight is poor and getting worse so that I can no longer see buses approaching the roundabout from the Lodge Hill direction bound for Abingdon – until a bus appears heading for Abingdon this side of the roundabout.

There is nowhere to sit and no electronic information available at bus shelters on either side of the Abingdon Road at that roundabout. Can anything be done to correct this situation soon?

Jim Wright, Gibson Close, Abingdon

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