Travel travails

Regarding the proposed ban on older cars in Edinburgh and three other cities, I have discovered that there is no longer a direct bus route from Kelso to Edinburgh and the quickest journey by that method now takes two hours 45 minutes or more, not two hours and five minutes.

It involves a change of bus at St Boswells with complex and uncertain times owing to Covid.

Travellers searching bus timetables online are directed to the Borders Railway at Tweedbank, 20 miles from here, where they may go up to Edinburgh. One gets the feeling that there is no alternative.

Now the pensioner who won't be able to go to Edinburgh and three other Scottish cities because their car is too old will be forced onto the train, which of course is not free for the bus pass brigade.

The Scottish Borders Council could have served their senior citizens better than this rotten deal!

CHRISTIAN ORR EWING

Kelso, Borders