Your correspondent (letters Echo, Oct 9) rightly highlights the confusion surrounding the consultation on the future of the No 36 bus route by pointing out that Poole and Bournemouth have different consultation dates.
For Poole residents the situation is even more confusing. All the website states is that if the subsidy is withdrawn then the route would no longer serve Poole.
Unfortunately it gives no other details.
The service serves the Talbot View part of Poole at one end and Talbot Village in the middle so we have no idea where the service might terminate and whether it would continue to serve this estate.
The Bournemouth consultation is clearer in that it shows the service no longer serving Wallisdown and Kinson and finishing at the University Roundabout.
However, I have not been able to find out what happens to the route if both Poole and Bournemouth withdraw their subsidies as it would effectively create a route which starts at the University Roundabout, may or may not serve Talbot Village and finishes somewhere in the middle of Surrey Road.
This raises the question as to whether such a short route would remain viable and would continue. In fact, the future of the whole route could be at stake.
I suggest that both Bournemouth and Poole should withdraw their consultations and either start talking to one another and produce some comprehensive and understandable proposals or preferably keep the 36 running.
R F Cooper, Laidlaw Close, Poole
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