Sticking up for local bus users? That’s the ticket | Letters

Owen Jones (Wait for a bus and then tell me the market knows best, 21 January) rehearses the problems of poor bus services outside London and even suggests some elements of the remedy, but critically jumps to the wrong conclusion. Privatisation of parts of the industry is not the reason for falling bus use and worsening services. That was happening before privatisation and indeed a decent case can be made that privatisation has helped to slow the decline.The London services he praises are actual