Sorry state of buses

SO bus fares in Glasgow are to rise by 20p and at the same time companies are asking why fewer people are using public transport?

Some of the buses in use in the north of the city can only be described as tin lizzies.

Heating switched off in the winter, turned on in the summer, electronic information units that have not worked this year and drivers badly in need of customer service training.

Public transport is in a sorry state in this country.

Anthony Martin, Ryeside Road, Glasgow

Vote leave

WITH the EU Referendum fast approaching, I would urge people to vote to leave the EU as its the only way we can gain control of our borders.

It’s a sobering fact to learn that over one million people have came to live in the UK since 2010. We cannot allow this to continue because if we do, then we face the possibility of the UK going into recession in the near future.

The government embrace immigration but do little to address the problems that mass immigration has caused, including the strain on housing and education and the effect it has had on the NHS, which has seen longer waiting times and poorer care.

Jason Findlay, Linnhead Drive, Glasgow

Exit time

JUNE 1975 was a missed opportunity for the UK: in the referendum a majority voted to stay in the European Community, while our first oil was produced from the North Sea.

Since 1973 Britain has paid £380 billion into EU coffers. Total tax receipts from oil and gas production since 1975 have exceeded £330 billion.

So, instead of investing in an oil fund for future generations, we have sent all our oil money to the unelected regime in Belgium.

When membership is granted to key US ally Turkey and to Albania, a further 82 million people will be free to come and live in the EU.

On June 23 we should head for the exit.

Terence Moore, Petershill Road, Springburn

Govanhill homes

READING about the scheme to buy up and repair some of the worst housing in Govanhill (Evening Times May 16), 40% of owner-occupiers were interested in selling up to Govanhill Housing Association on the cheap - what does that tell you about how desperate decent people are to get out of the area.

I took a walk down Allison Street at the weekend and also took in the sights of the other streets that run off Allison Street. Most of the tenements are covered in litter and the walls are scrolled with graffiti. Most security doors are lying wide open.

Does anyone really think that changing to a social landlord is going to make a blind bit of difference?

James Walker, posted online