IN spite of my reputation, in some quarters, of being a car-driving dinosaur, a brisk walk into town is something I do, now and again, so I may truthfully say that I do "exercise."

That led me to be standing in the Ronkswood bus queue, as a 303 bus pulled in, to collect passengers for the hospital.

The 303 Ronkswood Hospital Service quickly departed, leaving most of us passengers behind.

As usual, those left behind started moaning, the words "we pay for that bus through our council tax" were "manna from heaven" to me.

Never one to miss a public moan, I joined in. I pointed to the P&R bus just pulling in to deposit its usual meagre load of passengers, and said: "We give a fiver of our taxes to all those getting off that P&R bus, £250,000 in losses, every year."

I also pointed out that buses could only carry one in 50 of those travelling around our city each day. "Lunatics" was one response I heard.

Oh, joy - another mine successfully and publicly detonated beneath the bottoms of Labour's architects of chaos, in our city. We are paying a fortune into Labour's barmy bus schemes, much of it simply thrown away on "losses."

The 303 Hospital Service is another example of Labour's lunacy. It travels up and down virtually the same route as the Ronkswood bus service.

It very often runs empty, and it is financed from the pockets of we taxpayers. This "Hospital Bus" sweeps by (old) people standing in the pouring rain; people being burnt by the sun; people being buffeted by the wind, and people freezing to death.

It is a shining example of the bureaucratic madness that is managing our movements. Would any member of the barmy bus brigade care to explain why we are paying for a 303 bus service that often runs empty, and leaves passengers it could pick up to wait "for another one," in all sorts of weathers?

Why can't the 303 Hospital Service, that usually runs empty, carry passengers that want to get to other places on its route?

Is this another example of Labour's incompetence in managing public services?

N TAYLOR, Worcester.