LEIGH operator Jim Stones withdrew his bus service on Tyldesley's Shakerley estate after senseless yobs lobbed half a brick at a driver's windscreen.

It was the latest in a series of attacks, and the straw that finally broke the camel's back.

The 577 was pulled off the evening route on January 2 and will stay away until further notice.

But it's taken eight years of trouble before this major decision was taken in the interests of passenger safety.

I hope the vandals are satisfied.

Unfortunately it is not they who will suffer the consequences. They probably have no need to use the public transport provided on their estate.

It is the poor without their own transport and the elderly who have been robbed of a much needed service.

It's coming to something when bus drivers are not safe doing their jobs. I can't understand what sort of minds these people have. In the end they are depriving their neighbours of facilities they have had to fight for in the first place.

And who will they blame when they find the services have been withdrawn when they're old enough to need them? Not themselves.

They're too stupid to realise they're hurting themselves in the long run.