bus travel difficult for visitors as a convenience to itself. Taxi fares are now beyond the pockets of most visitors except for a special night out or a sightseeing tour. As transportation, taxis are no longer realistic.

Therefore visitors more and more want to use the bus system and are frustrated by the vagaries of Bermuda's system which is about as difficult for a stranger to use as we can make it. Bermuda should, of course, be looking out for the convenience and enjoyment of its visitors.

This week we had a letter to the Editor from an English visitor which has renewed our concern over the way the buses are operated. The visitor says that he found the buses themselves very good, apart from the lack of an evening service for the South Shore beach area. He also says that he found the ferry boats excellent.

In his letter the doctor from Liverpool who stayed at the Harmony Club said in part: "As a tourist who enjoys travelling around by bus, I find the arrangements for fare payments here most peculiar.

"On arrival one is told that cash is required and notes are not acceptable, but nobody arrives with a pocket full of coins and so cannot board a bus.

Having learned that tokens are available, one then discovers that these are only available at the bus station in Hamilton, which is crazy.

"Booklets of 15 tickets are also on sale but only from the bus station or a post office (but not the head post office), finally, if you do want to pay cash for a $1.50 fare you are charged double for the privilege, and need therefore twenty-four 25-cent coins for a couple, 48 coins for a return journey! "Why is the system made so complicated and difficult for visitors? Surely all hotels and apartments should be able to provide tokens and tickets.'' Why is the system made so complicated and difficult for visitors? That is the very question this newspaper has been asking for a long time. There have been no answers. There have been no changes that we are aware of. There is just the same old smug, "That's the way we do it.'' That's fine, but that is exactly the attitude that got us in the visitor mess we are in right now because we do it our way to Bermuda's detriment and then wonder why the visitors choose to go elsewhere.