FURTHER to recent letters regarding the reduction of essential bus services on some routes - with all the anxiety this is causing - in complete contrast is the ridiculous over-increase of buses covering the Areley Kings area.

The numbers have gone up from three per hour, which was quite enough, to six per hour, and this is made even worse by covering the Walshes section twice within a couple of minutes.

Having come from the Walshes, buses turn around Abberley Avenue, then return immediately back over Walshes which, in effect, means the estate gets 12 buses an hour - usually the large ones - so they often get clogged up on the small roads of that area, and are often nearly empty.

Small buses would suffice in off-peak times, but it still means that residents there get twice the fumes and noise. Fuel is being wasted and of course there is more wear and tear on those turnings.

Having been employed some years ago by London Transport, which was then regarded as a top-grade system, one can only say that today's "planners" would have been catapulted out of a job promptly.

There were not six buses an hour (of any one number) even on central London routes.

D MORLEY

Stourport

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