I WAS reading the story this week about disorder on the train route between Balloch and Glasgow. Why are these gangs of youths allowed to get away with this sort of behaviour?

Do their parents not wonder what they are up to when they leave the home in the morning with their black hoodies on? 

These youths have no respect for anyone and just want to cause chaos and intimidate people wherever they go.

M Dunlop
Shawlands

 

SCOTRAIL is having a laugh with its drinks ban. 

You go on the train and you find people drinking cans of beer, wine etc. 

Time to enforce the rule and put more conductors or the transport police on trains or stop them at the barriers. 

Maybe they should look at the weekends when some openly drink or smoke in stations. 

D Lamb
Glasgow

 

GREAT idea. Well done Eve (Bighearted student takes on touching challenge for gran with dementia, Friday).

Dementia & Alzheimer’s are such horrible illnesses. 

Watching your loved ones lose their minds and ability to control their basic functions.

The sooner they find A cure for it the better.

Jill Ferguson
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Alex Orr

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YOUR readers this week who commented on their First Bus fare hike are completely correct.

Yet again commuters are hit in the pocket without any improvement in the service.

My experience of the service in my area is of old vehicles, rude drivers and teenagers allowed to smoke and drink in the top deck of the bus without being challenged.

It will only get worse now with free travel for under-22s.

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