AS a Great Lever bus user I feel compelled to respond to Chris Amos (Bolton News 10th August).

I use both the 519/520 (formerly 571/572) and 570 bus services.

Mr Amos is correct when he says that the 570 does still take the old route into Bolton.

However it is usually fairly full by the time it reaches Great Lever.

Also, I must point out that it doesn't run in the evening or at all on Sundays.

As to his remarks regarding the 570 being subsidised and paid for by taxpayers.

I was a bus user for 45 years of my working life and even though I now qualify for a free bus pass I am still a tax payer! So I have certainly paid into the system!

As an aside I note that Mr Amos writes from The Netherlands, a country renown for its excellent transport systems. Lucky him!

Margaret Platt, Great Lever