7 OCTOBER 2006, Page 24

Bus blockade

From Alan Phillips

Sir: Rod Liddle (‘A miserable waste of space’, 30 September) quotes Transport 2000, ‘A bus carrying up to 90 passengers takes up the same space as three cars.’ Not when it’s in a mile-long bus lane it doesn’t; it’s effectively taking up 300 cars’ worth of road space, even when it’s not there.

Alan Phillips Epping, Essex