Like Mrs Eunice Baker (Letters, September 15), I do wonder if some people living in Brighton and Hove realise what an excellent bus service it has.

I have lived and travelled outside the city on occasions but nowhere have I found a bus service to equal ours.

I travel frequently all over the city and outside it on buses provided by Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company and 99 per cent of the time they are punctual, clean and most of the drivers are polite and cheerful.

I think managing director Roger French has provided us with something Brighton and Hove should be proud of. It's a pity some of our residents who fill the city with their cars don't take advantage of it and help reduce the pollution in the city.

I would like to add a word about the near misses some pedestrians have had with buses. I have waited for a bus at Churchill Square and watched pedestrians race over the roads against red traffic lights, some elderly, some towing a child or children, some with prams.

So who is to blame? Not the drivers.

-G Roberts, Hove