DESPITE the many stories in the Courier about proposed bus cuts, it is indeed disturbing as your correspondent noted (Courier March 6), that so few know about them. I am a regular bus user but was unaware of them until I read that letter. For environmental reasons I chose over 15 years ago to give up car ownership and have not regretted it; I still need to travel but with careful planning and patience I have found that it is very rare that the public transport system does not meet that need. I recently moved and I chose Crediton because of its usable public transport system. However if the proposed cuts are implemented it will, for me, cease to be a usable transport system; if I arrive late in the evening on a long distance train in Exeter then those cuts will mean that I am stranded there. The consequence will be that I shall be forced to buy a car. Unfortunately, the economics of car ownership imply that I would then probably use it for every journey I make, including replacing those long train journeys, and I would be making a much larger contribution to environmental degradation and road congestion. No doubt, the evening services of the no. 5 bus are being targeted because they are the most lightly used but the point is that an incomplete public transport system is an unusable transport system. With no evening public transport to Crediton my patronage of the whole public transport network will probably end with small, but real, increase in the probability of the demise of other services. Please permit me to mention, again, the relevant website for information about the proposals and contributions to the consultation: http://www.new.devon.gov.uk/publictransportbudget">www.new.devon.gov.uk/publictransportbudget . No doubt, those threatened evening journeys of the no. 5 are the least used but figures on that website show that their loss will affect over 20,000 individual passenger journeys per year. Those buses are far from empty. Ian Barlow Walnut Cottage Western Road Crediton