SIR - On the subject of public transport, call me old-fashioned but what about cutting prices to increase demand?
I know that when reasonable off-peak fares were introduced by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport executive in the late 1970s demand increased massively.
Low fares worked well in South Yorkshire and London in the late Seventies and early Eighties, leading to a cut in congestion. I also recall that when Bradford ran its own buses (up to 1974) fares here were the lowest in West Yorkshire.
We now have a for-profit bus company that charges what it can get away with.
In Edinburgh, where council-run buses are frequent and the flat fare is £1, buses run full and even First Bus is forced to keep fares low to compete.
At a fare of £1.40 or thereabouts to travel to Bradford off-peak, I refuse to pay and walk or cycle instead. I suspect we should have kept Bradford City Transport!
Kevin Morris, Princes Street, Wibsey
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