Apart from the stunningly beautiful Sea Life Tower Weymouth has another unique selling point - it is the only civilised human settlement in the known universe to boast a mainline train station unserved by local buses.

Dorset Transport Info website proudly trumpets this sensational attraction: 'NOTE that there are NO bus stops at the station itself.' This situation is so moronic, so indefensible, that one can only assume the Council have shares in Uber.

However Weymouth's Fivepoint Masterplan (Transport Section) has a cunning and utterly brilliant solution.

The first priority of the plan is not to correct this glaring deficiency of having a transport hub with no spokes radiating out of it, but to ameliorate the consequences by building a block of flats - something Weymouth really really needs - over the station.

The inference being that the Council wants everyone, with friends and relatives who inconveniently don't reside in Weymouth, to live at the station. Then all out-of-town visitors can meet them there. No local transport necessary!

Brilliant!

This diminution of transport services ties in with my 93 year old, non-driving mother's new Incredible-Shrinking-Bus-Timetable - just five buses a day between 10 and 2. Perfect for when she wants a (very) quick lunch in town!

From past letters I may have given the impression that Weymouth is a no-account, Ruritanian backwater run by intellectually challenged self-servers, but I would like to apologise wholeheartedly for this unfair denigration of a place that is clearly a progressive, futuristic, bus-free paradise.

Steve White Almere Netherlands