I AM unable to equate the comments printed in Your Shout about our local buses with the excellent service we get in our area.

For obvious reasons I can only write from personal experience but I always find our route 10 drivers kind, helpful and polite.

As in any large group there will always be one bad apple.

Yes, some buses are less than spotless but who is to blame?

The drivers?

Of course not, it is the passengers who leave cans, bottles, papers, food and other assorted rubbish on the vehicle rather than take it home with them when they get off.

I hate to think what their homes must be like.

As for buses being driven at high speed, I'm surprised to read such comments.

In my experience Swindon's traffic is such that we often seem to just crawl along and sit in traffic jams.

In my view our Thamesdown drivers do an excellent job in very difficult circumstances.

Let those who wish to complain remember one old truth.

It is always easy to do the other fellow's job until you actually have to do it, then it's not so simple.

G SCOTT.

Swindon