It flies in the face of current transport thinking where people are encouraged to abandon their cars and take the bus.

Talk about an integrated policy. How wrong could they be.

Many of those who will be affected are older people for whom the current services are a lifeline to the outside world.

It should not matter that their numbers are relatively small. In cases like this need should always outweigh commercialism.

"It is too far to walk to the terminus for a lot of people living around here and parts are very steep," says one critic.

The services currently using these two roads will be curtailed at the end of the month in favour of quicker journeys along Keighley Road and a "simplified" operation in Mixenden with buses every 10 minutes.

It is not too late for a rethink. Surely with more buses operating in the heart of Mixenden the bus company could send one periodically along the old route.