University bus service
Sir, — I deplore repeated references to the University students’ former free bus service which suggest that they neither needed nor deserved it. The chairman of the transport board, Mr M. O. Holdsworth, is quoted in “The Press” as saying that one only needed to look at the car parks at the University to realise that students could afford to pay full bus fare. Has he looked at the packed bicycle and scooter stands? Has he compared the ratio of cars to students? In the car park I sometimes used last year many of the drivers were people coming straight from jobs to lectures, or housewives who, like myself, had to hurry home afterwards to cook a family meal. The vital point about the special bus was not that it was free, but that it went to the right place, and catered for people to whom other buses were of no use. — Yours, etc., G. M. TROUP. „ December 19, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34032, 22 December 1975, Page 16
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