Remove ads from buses
Busways is a company contacted to NSW Government to provide a subsidised bus service to the community as an essential part of the public transport system.
Busways has sold advertising space on buses to gain an extra stream of revenue.
The placement of commercial advertising degrades the appearance of the buses.
It is an insult to the dignity of passengers and reduces enjoyment of bus travel.
The advertising is visual pollution of the environment exploiting members of the public as a captive audience in public streets.
The duties of bus drivers should be restricted to providing safe and efficient transport of passengers.
They should not be conscripted by stealth into the service of the advertising industry to drive billboards on wheels around the town.
Resentment of this graffiti on buses might expose drivers to hostility they don't deserve.
Common decency and respect for the rights of passengers and the public interest demands the removal of commercial advertising from buses.
Letter, 6 Sep 2010
John Collins, Woy Woy