Sir – I absolutely agree with your correspondent Mandy Hasco (Letters, July 30). Have any of the people involved in making the decision to cut bus stops (on behalf of their elected majority) tried to walk through Oxford at any time during the working day, avoiding groups of tourists, buskers and their supporters, mothers with buggies and fractious children, snogging couples…?
For some time now I have been doing most of my shopping in Newbury. Shortly I will be going further. There is nothing one person can do against all this bureaucracy except vote and that didn’t work.
Next month I vote with my feet. I shall be moving out of my native city and out of Oxfordshire for good.
The expense of this is more than offset by the priority that I need to live somewhere where I have confidence in the public services and the public behaviour of those I encounter.
This will not solve Oxford’s problem of course. In my opinion that will never be solved satisfactorily until the decison-makers think further ahead, ie beyond their own term in office.
John Hastings, Kidlington
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