Sir – The article about proposed orbital bus routes makes me wonder how many of us are taking purposeless trips in and out of the city centre.
From our West Oxfordshire village, it usually takes just over half-an-hour to drive to Thornhill to catch a bus to London.
On the one occasion we tried to use public transport we were travelling for an hour and 40 minutes with a very short wait at Gloucester Green; the slow crawl in and out of Oxford added considerably to the journey time. Anecdotal I know but how many others share that experience?
Nibbling away piecemeal at traffic problems is not the answer, we need a service to cope with today’s needs, not those of 30 years ago.
For a start, the park-and-ride facilities could be treated as “hubs” with frequent connecting services between them.
We desperately need one of these “hubs” on the A40 at Witney but that’s another story.
Judy Eames, Aston
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