Regarding the community bus situation (Express, February 26), this bus has been a lifeline for many of our disabled and elderly people.
The bus can take wheelchairs and their passengers and it has given many a new lease of life.
Ex-mining villages have more than their fair share of disabled people due to a lifetime spent underground. It has two very caring drivers who take their passengers' shopping and carry their bags indoors for them.
They have been taken for meals out a
nd have had the pleasure of buying their own clothes at shopping outlets.
The lack of funds for this service for our elderly and disabled citizens seems unbelievable at this time when the government has funded free travel for elderly and disabled people.
The people who use the community bus are not able to use the normal bus services and the funding the government has provided has not trickled down to this very good service.
During the spell of snow the drivers visited their normal bus users and collected a shopping list from them. They did their shopping and delivered it to their homes.
I have written to the prime minister and Denise Jeffery, deputy leader of Wakefield Council, and await their replies.
The bus takes 25 per cent of its passengers from Upton and the same amount from South Elmsall – a letter has been sent to their town councils hoping for a contribution.
Mollie Wright,
Park Avenue,
South Kirkby
