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Red Defender:
when i was younger i lived 8 miles from school the bus to school/only bus came at 7:20 in the morning(still does now) who knows a child who wants to leave for school an hour and ahalf before school needed to? my kind parents saw the logic and from then on in we would leave at 20 to 9 and still beat the bus !! but it gets worse cos if you missed the bus that left school at 3 - not hard when sir wants "a word in my shell like" then i was stuffed i eaver walked 8 miles on the road cos their aint no footpaths which took about 2 hours or i waited for one of my parents to pick me up at about 6 ish.

but my problems with public transport dont end their i then went to college and had to catch a bus at 6 in the morning to get the 25 miles to college by 9 ! after afew months my father understood the logic and bought me a moped so i started leaving at 8:20 which seemed reasanable to me (exept i wiped the moped out on the 3rd day - drovew over an audi quattro - that was expensive - ended up on buses again for about 3 weeks) and that was where my affair with buses ended,

 or so i thought cos i went and did a silly thing and fell in love with some one on the isle of wight and it was to expensive to take the car over so i was stuck with catching a passenger ferry (£15 a time) and then catching a bus (£2 or 3 miles) in the end i decided it would be cheaper and less stressfull to marry her !! (how ingnorant was i :roll:  im now skint and and harrased !?!)

as my final word i would like to say i hate buses (unless im driving cos thats fun) and as for trains !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :evil:  :evil:

thermidorthelobster:

--- Quote from: "TimM" ---
--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---.......buses.......can hold 73 passengers
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Any there lies the problem with the UK, the CAN hold 73 passengers, but through bad service, high prices, bad times etc they quite often hold about 3 (including the driver)  :cry:
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Furry muff, but I was also going on the basis that 4x4s CAN hold 7 or even 12 passengers, whereas you most often see them with one.

TimM:
I agree, it's the same with all private transport, most are driven/riden by one or at a push 2. What I was trying to infer, was that buses would be a great idea for freeing up the roads (conjestion, pollution etc) except that they are not utilised properly for various reasons.

In Sweden or Switzerland (I think) the trains are cheap and efficient and always run on time, and so get used lots....... the benfit they have is government funding which our buses/trains don't get.

Bob696:

--- Quote ---You can drink and there's no arguments about who's driving
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I dont drink much ... (3-4 pints a month?) so thats not an issue. The main reason for that is so I dont have to get on a mobile toilet being used as a communal phone box.


--- Quote ---Let's imagine getting rid of buses for a moment. Assume 50 passengers per bus. Now let's assume they all decant into cars and sit 2-up (optimistically). So that's 25 cars. Would you rather be vying at the traffic lights with one bus or 25 cars?
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Wouldnt it be great if everybody but me used the bus.  :roll:

I work 6 miles away from home. To get there by public transport (for 8.45) I would have to leave at 6.15. That makes for 5 hours per day traveling (both ways). Thats 1 day per week traveling or a month and a half per year !!!!

Oh yeah, the drive takes me 20 mins one way or just over 3 hours per week, 12 hours per month or 6 days per year. Thats a saving of 48 days per year of my life :!:


I have better things to do with my life. :P

Andy the Landy:

--- Quote from: "TUFFTEE" ---Why not scrap all the Buses?
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 [-X  Noooooooo - some of us make a living out of those Damn things

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