WHAT a hullabaloo! Are we talking a cure for cancer, are we talking about world peace, an end to child poverty maybe?

None of these worthy causes, the hype and excitement is over a bus with its £1.3 million budget, road changes causing upset with extra long bus stops preventing people parking outside there own homes and £1.50-a-ride fares.

Why do we need fancy buses to travel for 15 minutes? What's wrong with the "old" buses?

People want to get from A to B as cheaply and as reliably as possible, without the frills. What's next, tea and cucumber sandwiches on board? Cut into triangles, of course.

Mr N Hillen,

Wains Road,

Dringhouses, York.

Updated: 09:36 Wednesday, May 10, 2006