Public Transport

Jez · #1 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 11:01 AM

Out of curiosity a poll just to see whether people enjoy travelling on public transport?!

cat72uk · #2 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 12:29 PM

i have to use it i have no car!

Pigeon feather · #3 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 12:31 PM

Hi Jez, I don't drive and have to use public transport alot to get to A to B. I like using it now that I live in Kent but it wasn't so fun in London due to the overcrowding! although the downside to the public transport in Kent is that the buses aren't so regular and there's not always a bus route where you want to go! I do find it a tad overpriced too compared to London which is odd

Paul mabbott · #4 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 01:16 PM

I must admit that being squashed into a 'bus with hundreds of school children can be trying but better than being stuck in a car in a traffic jam!

You haven't mentioned boats?

Billy Wobble Dagger · #5 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 01:48 PM

I tend to only use the bus for going to and from Oxford for a drink or several, or on the park and ride for shopping. The trouble with the park and ride is that it is an ordinary bus. So going in to the city is fine, no bags, but on the return with all the shopping bags there is no where to put them apart from on your knees. Admittedly it’s not far from the bus stop back to the P+R but even so it can be uncomfortable and cramped. What they need is to take ever other set of seats out to allow you to put your bags somewhere safe, and yes it would mean more buses but this is a major problem with all public transport, comfort. Our cars are comfortable, and public transport isn't, until that is rectified private transport will always win.

BWD

Paul mabbott · #6 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Billy Wobble Dagger

I..... Our cars are comfortable, and public transport isn't, until that is rectified private transport will always win.

BWD

As one who regularly travels to London by train and similar distances by car, I know which I find the most comfortable! Unless, of course, you have a chauffeur-driven Rolls!

Jez · #7 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 02:43 PM

I used to love travelling into Birmingham with my family as a child. I was brought up to give my seat to ladies which was great for me coz I used to have great pleasure in holding on to the posts/straps staying balanced as the buses turned round the corners, Ah the fun I had when I was a lad.

I still use public transport now I like watching the world go by, it's very therapeutic and also great when you see good wildlife!

agrumpycow · #8 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 03:18 PM

I must admit buses don't do it for me, I just find everyone so rude, including the drivers and it can be hellishly expensive - £1.30 last time I did for a 3/4 mile journey.
I use the train when going into town, it's cheap, £1.20 day return, the journey is about 4 minutes and I can walk to the station in 10.

Greenish · #9 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 04:37 PM

The only time I use public transport is when I have to go somewhere in school. I don't really enjoy the bus journey, but from September (when I go to secondary school) I will be taking the bus journey to and from school every day.

Paul mabbott · #10 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 05:12 PM

That's the north-south divide: people are just rude sown south! Don't have that sort of thing on our public transport in Yorkshire, everybody very polite, cheerful and helpful!

I agree that prices are too high (not that I have to pay

) - they should really be only token costs.

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Originally Posted by agrumpycow

......., I just find everyone so rude, including the drivers and it can be hellishly expensive - £1.30 last time I did for a 3/4 mile journey.
I use the train when going into town, it's cheap, £1.20 day return, the journey is about 4 minutes and I can walk to the station in 10.