I'm a bus ******
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bobtail4x4

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4,406 posts

138 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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dropped the camper into Tony Banks Leeds this morning for a stainless exhaust fitted,
told me it will be a few hours,
got on a bus, bought a return ticket that apparently gives all day travel,
stayed on through Leeds to Seacroft and back to Pudsey, back into Leeds and got off had a coffee

its years since I was on a bus, what a great people watching experience.

edit btw the word is wker

Mod edit. Please do not bypass the swear filter

TwigtheWonderkid

49,030 posts

179 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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Love sitting at the front on the top deck of a double decker, although you can't always get that seat. Managed it the other week from Brixton to Shoreditch, across London Bridge.

Roofless Toothless

7,565 posts

161 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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Sitting the front seat of the Docklands Light Railway is even better.

TwigtheWonderkid

49,030 posts

179 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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Roofless Toothless said:
Sitting the front seat of the Docklands Light Railway is even better.
Oh yes, when it goes under the river.

sociopath

3,433 posts

95 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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My local bus service has leather seats, and wifi, stops more or less outside my house and takes me directly into the centre of Chester.

What better way to go for a few beers?

jimmytheone

2,006 posts

247 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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But never the top deck on the kerbside

untakenname

5,350 posts

221 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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Busses aren't viable these days with stops so close to each other, was hoping that TFL would follow through with it's promise to end free travel for under twenties as kids will wait and then get on the bus for a just couple of stops instead of walking five minutes.

Haven't been on the bus for a while but in my youth used to get the N3 nightbus back after being out in London and it used to be heaving with depravity, these days I think people just get an Uber back home south of the river.

Wouldn't have liked to have been on this bus on Tuesday https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRCsH16B0i9/?utm_me...

alorotom

12,782 posts

216 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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sociopath said:
My local bus service has leather seats, and wifi, stops more or less outside my house and takes me directly into the centre of Chester.

What better way to go for a few beers?
Same here in Newcastle - super convenient for nights out and also when car parks are super busy at Christmas time

sherman

15,222 posts

244 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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If you want to see an efficient bus network. Heres the route map for Edinburgh. Most services 5am- midnight 7 days a week and every10-20mins. Night buses 12am -4am 7days a week. A monthly pass is only £56 a month.
The oldest buses in regular service are 10 years old and they are spotless usually.
They have a heritage fleet for special occasions too.

untakenname

5,350 posts

221 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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I got on the Edinburgh tram from the airport and was impressed with the quality but then was also surprised at the fare of £6.50 if I remember correctly compared with £1.55 in London (I got the Tram to Croydon then train to Gatwick).

sherman

15,222 posts

244 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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untakenname said:
I got on the Edinburgh tram from the airport and was impressed with the quality but then was also surprised at the fare of £6.50 if I remember correctly compared with £1.55 in London (I got the Tram to Croydon then train to Gatwick).
To enter the airport on the tram costs extra. Get off before the airport and its only £1.80 for a single.

PH User

22,154 posts

137 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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Busses, what are they?

valiant

14,154 posts

189 months

Friday 9th July 2021
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sherman said:
If you want to see an efficient bus network. Heres the route map for Edinburgh. Most services 5am- midnight 7 days a week and every10-20mins. Night buses 12am -4am 7days a week. A monthly pass is only £56 a month.
The oldest buses in regular service are 10 years old and they are spotless usually.
They have a heritage fleet for special occasions too.
London, hold my beer…

Mr Tidy

31,388 posts

156 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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sociopath said:
My local bus service has leather seats, and wifi, stops more or less outside my house and takes me directly into the centre of Chester.

What better way to go for a few beers?
When do you have your beers?

Early 2000s I lived in Egham, Surrey and we had some friends over one weekend.

We got the last bus to Windsor on a Saturday night at around 7.30pm. If we had turned around we might have made the last bus home - so we made a night of it and got a cab instead.

Public transport only seems to work in cities.

Johnspex

5,245 posts

213 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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PH User said:
Busses, what are they?
I don't know what busses are but buses are part of the public transport system.

CourtAgain

3,777 posts

93 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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Johnspex said:
PH User said:
Busses, what are they?
I don't know what busses are but buses are part of the public transport system.
Patrols have started early today redface



Before the driving ban, I hardly went on many buses, as Lomdon routes are dull due to congestion and low speeds. On that fateful trip to Willesden Magistrates, the Wright Streetlites on the 232 had an amazing turn of speed up to 50 which is rare in most parts of London smothered by 20 zones getmecoat

coppernorks

1,919 posts

75 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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Why is the OP a Bus wker ?

I had a epiphany when my car was in for a service, what a good idea, a bus from Falkirk to Edinburgh, cup of overpriced tea in Princes St.
and back again.

All human life was there, even a few unknown species, life's waifs, strays and footpads, whey faced and miserable,
skinny, spotty sportswear attired fkwits on their way to Aldis for some cider, eastern European single mothers pushing
pushchairs containing sprogs probably fathered by aforementioned spotty fkwits.

I then realised that's why I drive everywhere.

sociopath

3,433 posts

95 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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Mr Tidy said:
sociopath said:
My local bus service has leather seats, and wifi, stops more or less outside my house and takes me directly into the centre of Chester.

What better way to go for a few beers?
When do you have your beers?

Early 2000s I lived in Egham, Surrey and we had some friends over one weekend.

We got the last bus to Windsor on a Saturday night at around 7.30pm. If we had turned around we might have made the last bus home - so we made a night of it and got a cab instead.

Public transport only seems to work in cities.
Last bus home is at midnight :-)

TwigtheWonderkid

49,030 posts

179 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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sociopath said:
Mr Tidy said:
sociopath said:
My local bus service has leather seats, and wifi, stops more or less outside my house and takes me directly into the centre of Chester.

What better way to go for a few beers?
When do you have your beers?

Early 2000s I lived in Egham, Surrey and we had some friends over one weekend.

We got the last bus to Windsor on a Saturday night at around 7.30pm. If we had turned around we might have made the last bus home - so we made a night of it and got a cab instead.

Public transport only seems to work in cities.
Last bus home is at midnight :-)
I'm really lucky. Oxford Tube / X90 from Marble Arch, every half hour 24/7. First stop is Hillingdon tube station, and I can walk home from there. Cost is £4. So if I'm up in town, I can get home quickly and cheaper at any time.

Bloody love the bus.

vixen1700

29,009 posts

299 months

Saturday 10th July 2021
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Must admit I still enjoy getting on a 'new' Routemaster even though they've been around for almost a decade now. smile