Installing seat belts on public transport (The Argus, June 8) is a very good idea - well done, The Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company, for getting started with their new buses.
A father who lost his daughter in a train crash is campaigning for seat belts on trains. If it saves one life it is worth doing.
However, clunk-click on trains may have a similar effect as when double-decker trains were introduced to reduce overcrowding on railway commuter lines between London and Kent in the late Forties, The time taken to disembark and embark rush-hour passengers at stations caused colossal delays across the network.
The other problem is how to secure the more vulnerable standing passengers?
Bus drivers would have to ensure all passengers had clunk-clicked before driving off. And if this proved impossible, perhaps, as with the air hostesses who check our seat belts before we fly, they would need to bring back clippies.
-John Stanaway, Hove
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