'Bus spokesman doesn't live in the real world - so many people are not wearing masks on buses'

I read the epic letter from Chris Child, marketing manager, at Stagecoach Midlands, in Your Views.

Quite frankly, I don’t even consider he lives in the real world of ordinary bus passengers at this time of crisis.

I’m now on public transport again during this serious Corvid 19 situation after the March lockdown and a regular user of Stagecoach bus services.

On almost every journey I take, there are several passengers who do not wear compulsory by law, face masks, who put other travellers lives in peril, especially those in the high-risk health category.

I have tried my utmost several times, through contact with operations managers, to ask Stagecoach, to give authority to their drivers, insisting that all passengers wear the covering. I have been abused when I occasionally dare ask why a passenger is not wearing a mask.

Mainly it is for no valid reason whatsoever, so they then cover up.

So because I was getting nowhere fast with Stagecoach, I proposed a notice, just inside every vehicle by the drivers cab stating: “No mask, no entry other than health exemptions signed by a doctor.”

What could be simpler? But still I await implementation.

So in the meantime, selfish people will continue to spread the virus, to possibly also take innocent lives, perhaps yours, or mine.

But who cares?

I have also written to transport secretary Grant Shapps, and local government secretary Robert Jenrick in Parliament weeks ago, without so much as an acknowledgement in reply.

Keith Jackson

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