Editor – Your front-page headline on April 3 reads ‘CalMac warned to listen to island voices’. Warned, forsooth. That should have CalMac executives shaking in their shoes.
In the article, councillor Reeni Kenedy-Boyle is quoted as ‘urging’ CalMac to act responsibly and wisely. This is as likely to be as effective as ‘calling upon’ a government to act rationally rather than in its own interest.
It would be good indeed if CalMac was to heed warnings and act upon enlightened urgings (sic), but readers will have noticed that CalMac hasn’t responded to the questions that comprise much of David Atherton’s open letter on March 27 enumerating some of the organisation’s myriad failings. To this litany of shortcomings can be added contemptuous indifference to richly deserved criticism.
