East Neuk needs better transport links

Sir, - Anyone who has not got personal transport and wants to get to Dundee from the East Neuk has a problem.

Many of us need to get to hospital appointments in that city, however, to get to where you want to go, you need to use three routes. Connections are not always good.

One idea that would help some of us would be to extend routes X58 and X60 from St Andrews to Dundee bus station.

One of the route 99 slots could be used to accommodate a new service.

The idea was raised at a local meeting with the Scottish Labour candidate and she pledged to raise the matter with Stagecoach.

One assumes that other political parties will support her efforts?

Anyone not on the X58/60 route will still have a problem.

It is one of the many problems that we have with transport, not just here but throughout Scotland.

It is about time that those at Holyrood got to grips with it.

At the moment, they seem to be obsessed with their delusions of grandeur and forget those of us who pay for it all.

I will pose another problem for them. Imagine you are rising 81 and it is a cold day in winter with a howling gale. You are at Leuchars station at the bus stop and you want to get to the platforms. The stairs are too much for you so you have to walk up and down long and exposed ramps. It is not nice.

What is needed are lifts which would get us to the trains in some comfort.

It is not rocket science, is it? It could perhaps be financed from the money spent on jollies to the USA. W. Ledger. 43 Dreelside. Anstruther.

Leuchars railway station with the pedestrian ramps at the right of the photograph.