Letters / Get a grip!
Shetland currently has three airports and one bus station for a population of 23,000.
Tingwall airport is operated, and very heavily subsidised by the SIC. Close it!
The savings would be far greater than those envisaged by closing our only bus station.
Talking of threes, the SIC operates three individual ferries to Papa, Foula and Skerries with a combined population of less than 100.
Get all the inter island ferries out to private tender, or have them brought under the control of the Scottish Government, as I understand Orkney is considering.
And stop penalising less well off and rural-living communities. £600,000 to stop Mareel going bankrupt? Get a grip.
Douglas Young
Sumburgh
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