I SHOULD HAVE thought that the aim of any passenger
transport undertaking would be to provide the road service in the right place at the right time. But some people in outlying parts of the great area served by London Transport are learning otherwise. Judging by some of the recent cuts in the country bus services (for London Transport operates in many truly rural areas), a tidily dovetailed diagram of schedules with the rough ends cut away seems to be the present ideal. Thus the people who live in Abinger Common on top of Leith Hill must now walk more than a mile to catch a bus that Mils into Dorking only every two hours or so, and at most inconvenient times. If they can't wait for the bus then they have a walk of three or four miles ahead of them to get down to the main road. If London Transport continues with its policy of rationalising which looks so good on paper, some parts of the highlands of Surrey will vie with those of Scotland in inaccessibility.'
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