"A rail fare deal for poor busmen" (The Argus, September 7) won't go down well with nurses, teachers, emergency service, office, shop workers and journalists paying the highest rail fares in Europe for an unsafe, unreliable, overcrowded third-class railway.

Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company, owned by global transportation giant Govia, implied it does not want to put up bus fares to keep its bus drivers adequately paid but would rather pass the buck on to parent local train companies Thameslink and South Central by issuing concessionary fares to bus drivers.

-John Stanaway, Lorna Road, Hove