Sir, - Bloomsday: no better day to go hithering, thithering in Leopold's footsteps, leaving the car behind.
The Angelus Bell o'er the Liffey swell rang out as I approached the bus stop for the 15-minute ride to the city centre for a 12.30 assignment. But there I waited, waited, waited as, one, two, three - yes six Imp buses headed for the terminus and disappeared into oblivion.
Eventually, at 12.40, a bus appeared. When I asked the driver where the other five were he informed me that, if they are running late, they cut out this particular part of the route into town. Naturally, I found this hard to believe until I spoke to a fellow passenger who told me the same thing happened on her northside route. Being a bus pass holder, she was fearful of complaining.
Can the decision to by-pass swathes of a route at will at the discretion of the driver be the latest policy of Dublin Bus? And if so, why is the public not made aware of this startling development?
Leave the car behind? Never again. - Yours, etc., Anne MacBride,
Rutland Avenue, Dublin 12.