I WAS amused to read in Friday's Bolton Evening News that First National hopes that "timetables will become a thing of the past".

It would appear that they already have.

On Friday evening my wife, who is in her 80s, went out to catch a bus at 8.30pm.

At this time of the evening, buses run at half-hour intervals.

The bus did not turn up, so there was therefore an interval of an hour between buses.

Never mind the colour, can we please just have a reliable service?

John Jenkins

Merehall Close

Bolton