April 12, 2011Dear Sir,As a visitor to Bermuda for more than 55 years (my Yale Jazz Band, Eli’s Chosen Six, player for college week at Harmony Hall in 1955), I was shocked and distressed to see the new ferry schedule, as were all of the local residents and visitors to whom I have spoken in the past few days. The present Government’s professed concern about the sharp decline in tourist numbers as well as its professed concern about increased traffic on Bermuda’s roads is contradicted by its behaviour – that is by its reduction of weekday ferries and its elimination of weekend ferry service on the pink route.I believed that the highest level of governmental incompetence had been reached by our own New York State legislature – but the torch has been passed to the present Government of this beautiful Island. The politics of my wife and me are “left off center” and pro-Obama. The issue then is not one of political philosophy, but rather one of competence and sensitivity to all of the residents of Bermuda as well as to tourists who visit regularly. My wife and I have visited Bermuda twice each year, and for the past 20 years have been guests of Greenbank and visit guest houses in Paget, but whether we will continue to is now an open question.The Government’s decision to cut back and even eliminate ferry service at the beginning of the Island’s “High Season” of visitor arrivals is stunning, is unbelievable and will eventually cost more in lost revenue than the modest savings envisioned by this short-sighted Government.But most of all, we are deeply saddened by the self-destructive action of the Government with respect to the serious decline of public transportation in Bermuda – which has been our “home away from home” for three decades.RICHARD AND ELIZABETH VOIGHTNew City, New York