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Feb 12, 2020 8:32:37 GMT
Post by ARENA on Feb 12, 2020 8:32:37 GMT
Would a new bus service help you?
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Feb 12, 2020 8:52:34 GMT
Post by jimmy20 on Feb 12, 2020 8:52:34 GMT
It sounds like a good idea until you reflect on waiting in all sorts of weather for a bus to turn up,assuming one will, and organising you day to return according to the timetable.Much easier to just jump in the car
We live on a bus route and all the buses go by regularly with just one person on board. Given that the service is heavily subsidised here by the LA it would be cheaper to provide a taxi for that passenger
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Feb 12, 2020 10:47:44 GMT
Post by aubrey on Feb 12, 2020 10:47:44 GMT
We used to play a fantasy bus route game - working out a useful bus route that doesn't exist in real life. For example: a bus going west along Oxford street and turning down Regent Street would be very useful - or at least a novelty - but as far as I know there has never been one.
I'm a bit rusty on my central London bus routes these days, so I can't really play this game any more,, but our lass comes back in the mornings telling me of her journey from Kensal: Tfl have done some silly things to the 23 route over the past few months, which makes me think I'm well out of it.
One of my favourite ever bus journeys was one where I went up Regent Street on a bendy bus (*1) in an empty bus lane so that I was riding past all the traffic (*2) while being the only person on the bus (*3): three things a certain type of car driver hated about buses back then. The only thing that would have made it better would be if I hadn't paid my fare (which was the 4th thing), but of course I had.
Then Boris Johnson, partly because of the supposed lack of fare-paying on bendy buses, did away with them and got his mate to design (badly) a new fleet of double-deckers. They turned out to be just as easy to dodge fares on as the bendy buses, so you're only going to be able to enter by the front doors in a bit.
I love buses though.
Jimmy, if there were more buses everywhere (not just London and in (some) other cities), and if they were more frequent and more reliable, then people would use them more. The move away from public transport and especially from buses was a deliberate policy and one that seems almost vindictive, especially since there are still a hell of a lot of people even now who have to use buses no matter how bad they are.
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Feb 12, 2020 13:19:10 GMT
Post by jimmy20 on Feb 12, 2020 13:19:10 GMT
Aub, that is all very well if you live in a big city but out here it's impossible
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Feb 13, 2020 8:10:12 GMT
Post by aubrey on Feb 13, 2020 8:10:12 GMT
Aub, that is all very well if you live in a big city but out here it's impossible
That's what I'm saying - it is impractical to use the bus in many places now, which has come about, in part, from Govt policy, cutting subsidies for bus routes: which means that people have either got to have a car or else not travel. Subsidies for buses should be increased. It would be great if buses everywhere were like those we have in London.
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Feb 13, 2020 8:20:15 GMT
Post by jimmy20 on Feb 13, 2020 8:20:15 GMT
Aub, that is all very well if you live in a big city but out here it's impossible
That's what I'm saying - it is impractical to use the bus in many places now, which has come about, in part, from Govt policy, cutting subsidies for bus routes: which means that people have either got to have a car or else not travel. Subsidies for buses should be increased. It would be great if buses everywhere were like those we have in London.
Subsidies are all very well but they cost us.For instance here if the LA start cutting them there will be uproar from one individual who has chosen to live in rural isolation and demands that the daily bus service continues to run to make their once weekly trip into town.Why should we all pay for that? |
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Feb 13, 2020 9:58:19 GMT
Post by aubrey on Feb 13, 2020 9:58:19 GMT
That's what I'm saying - it is impractical to use the bus in many places now, which has come about, in part, from Govt policy, cutting subsidies for bus routes: which means that people have either got to have a car or else not travel. Subsidies for buses should be increased. It would be great if buses everywhere were like those we have in London.
Subsidies are all very well but they cost us.For instance here if the LA start cutting them there will be uproar from one individual who has chosen to live in rural isolation and demands that the daily bus service continues to run to make their once weekly trip into town.Why should we all pay for that?
Because we live in a society. And if the service was more reliable and cheaper then more people would use it. I have a friend who lived some miles out of town (walkable, though not practical to do so every day), but only because that was where the council had put her; she didn't choose it. Though, to be fair, the bus wouldn't have gone down there anyway. |
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Feb 13, 2020 10:05:19 GMT
Post by aubrey on Feb 13, 2020 10:05:19 GMT
Actually, I've found a bus stop a bit further into town, so you don't have to walk all the way. I don't know how often buses run from there though.
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Post by jimmy20 on Feb 13, 2020 10:20:41 GMT
Thinking back,my parents fled from London to where my brother had been evacuated and settled in a hamlet three miles from anywhere. It was bike bike bike everywhere including me with mother to the nearest school. Oakham was the main shopping place, and that was a walk to the railway station One thing, we were all a lot fitter and slimmer despite the steamed regular suet steamed puddings, and rabbit pies  |
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Feb 19, 2020 19:54:05 GMT
Post by maywalk on Feb 19, 2020 19:54:05 GMT
Too disabled now to use them.
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Feb 20, 2020 21:22:56 GMT
Post by skylark on Feb 20, 2020 21:22:56 GMT
That’s sad, but our buses allow small mobility scooters, which should help disabled people. The odd thing is that though there are many mobility vehicles and wheelchairs on town centre pavements, I never see one on the bus. Well, a wheelchair once, but that was a couple of years ago.
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Feb 24, 2020 11:16:55 GMT
Post by althea on Feb 24, 2020 11:16:55 GMT
Bus services have been cut here in North Wales. It now takes an hour on the bus to get to Chester as the buss tries to encompass every route on it's way there. It's OK if you have plenty of time and you do see places you have never seen before,but it's a nuisance if you are in a hurry.
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