Stagecoach is withdrawing the X99 to Raigmore Hospital, saying passenger numbers are extremely low.
Fair enough, says The Auld Boy. But there’s a wee problem with that arithmetic.
“Hardly anybody uses it” and “hardly anybody needs it” are not the same sentence.
In the Highlands, a trip to hospital can mean travelling a very long way indeed. The sort of journey you don’t notice until the morning it becomes yours.
From his perch, The Auld Boy has seen plenty disappear because the spreadsheet looked a bit lonely.
Sometimes six people on a bus is six people who really needed the bloody bus.
