why not to use public transport

We live about 2.5 miles south of S'bury town centre. The bus return fare is £3.60 - that's Arriva. I'd rather walk it.

tell the lad to get a taxi from darlo to catt its £5 each if he grabs 3 others to jump in with him as stated their easy to spot the buses are **** and tell him to sate the barracks not the garrison its a fair tab from marne bks to itc trust me. and don't be late be at least 15 mins early an hour if possible gives you a chance to have a quite friendly chat with the d.s before they turn into the evil dilitonts you will have for the next 12 weeks

aaggghhh memories

You should try it in NI, we have one transport company, subsidised by the government so they can pretty much be as useless as they want without worrying about competition, the unions hold the bosses to ransom and as a result we probably have the worst public transport system in the UK.

Some of the trains are 35 years old and the powerplants in some of the younger ones were saved from 1960's rolling stock scrapped in the 80's

We have some pretty pink buses but I reckon the drivers need to ask for mirrors to be fitted to them.

£1.50 for a journey of less than 2 miles.

I like using public transport,especially the bus,its very cheap---------I have a bus pass

[yorkie_chris]

Makes me laugh how public transport, (meant to be for people who can't afford a vehicle and it's too far/you too drunk to cycle) is more expensive than using any other vehicle...

Originally Posted by Bedhead

Some of the trains are 35 years old and the powerplants in some of the younger ones were saved from 1960's rolling stock scrapped in the 80's

OH NO! They still work don't they?

I looked into getting the train from Northampton to Bournville as its going to clock up 25k+ on the car.

£12.50 a day to travel in a packed and stinking train, one change of train + £25 a week to park the car at the station this end.


I summed it up and bought a diesel car instead.

Originally Posted by speedplay

I summed it up and bought a diesel car instead.

Just to waste more money in fuel as you sit in rush hour traffic

[yorkie_chris]

Train is no quicker than car even in traffic, it takes about an hour and a half to get to leeds uni from here in car in rush hour, train is 40 minutes, but then add on time to get from here to train station and from other station to uni. Annnnnd you'll do neither, just ride a bike there in 30 mins

To work by train: 12 minutes walk to station, 22 minutes on train, 15 mintues walk to office. 49 minutes.

By car (rush hour): 75 minutes
By bike (rush hour): 70 minutes
By car or bike (non rush hour): 30 minutes