THE fact that the guided buses were named Vantage and V1 and V2 seems to me to be a thoughtless act by the team that headed the building of this white elephant.
Those of us who lived through the Second World War have bad memories of those names.
Why did it not occur to the team to call them Advantage and so designate the buses with the names A1 and A2?
In the same vein, why was it necessary to spend several millions of pounds to construct concrete rails, when for the major part of the route the guided buses run on the road, as do other buses?
It would have been better to have made the route a two-lane road to act as a Tyldesley and Atherton bypass, thus retaining all of the lanes on the A580.
DT Abbott
Crawford Avenue
Tyldesley
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