While I uphold the right of anyone to object to anything they choose, your article about the residents of Woodland Avenue's campaign against the re-route of the 81 bus through their road made extraordinary reading.

When people have a genuine grievance, why do they wrap it up with fatuous arguments which often serve to negate their point?

Apparently buses passing by wake people up (but presumably other traffic doesn't).

Apparently the pollution is "just horrendous and you always see someone coughing as the bus goes past". (Presumably, therefore, no one in Western Road ever has any time for shopping because they are too busy coughing.)

Apparently lots of children used to cycle and skateboard in the road (presumably dodging in and out of all the other vehicles).

If the residents think a bus route might, for some reason, lower the value of their property, why don't they just be honest and say so instead of spouting all this claptrap?

-Clive Wilkin, Hampshire