‘Given the state of the economy and TfL’s problems we are lucky to have buses at all’

• I NOTE what Gerry Dermody says about the C2 withdrawal but, as I said, the replacement and extended 88 is being diverted so they will still have a service albeit every 12 minutes and I cannot understand what he expects from a “night” service, assuming he means the wee small hours, (The C2 bus route is important, October 19).

With Transport for London making losses, he cannot expect a more frequent service than half-hourly – about the same as other all-night routes. We are lucky to have them anyway, a network of night buses stretching out to the outer suburbs and the ends of the tube network.

Other proposed alterations are now being shown on bus stops – with a massive list of routes to be altered, but giving a website to access to find out more and comment. Neither the C2 nor 88 are mentioned in a long list.

It is nonsense for Susan Kaye to say that cutbacks will lead to more loneliness and isolation, (Cutting the bus network will affect hundreds of thousands, October 19). Buses will still be running, possibly less frequently or with changes needed at different places but with a Freedom Pass we can go all over.

Given the state of the economy and TfL’s problems we are lucky to have them at all, unlike provincial cities where buses can stop at 6pm and in villages, often with only one bus a week – where people really are isolated.

JOHN STRATTON
NW3