When was the last time you went on a bus?

When was the last time you went on a bus?

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vixen1700

22,669 posts

269 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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Really noticed the difference this week with it being half-term. The morning bus has been great. smile

droopsnoot

11,812 posts

241 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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I used to get the bus home from the pub, it was a great service that used to run at 11.25pm, just about exactly the right time, back when the majority of pubs actually stopped serving at 11pm. Then the bus became 11.05pm, then 10.55pm, and then changed the route so it only went half-way, but for the same price. I gave up in the end. Unfortunately I was often the only one on it, so I can see why it might not make them much money - usually the night when a few were waiting would be the night when it didn't turn up.

These days the only time I go on a bus is when I go into Chester and use the Park and Ride - £2 for travel in and out of the city and parking for as long as I like.

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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johnwilliams77 said:
Frank7 said:
Of course you don’t, but when you are repeatedly declaring that you don’t believe something that happened to me in Australia that I know beyond a shadow of doubt did happen, it’s bound to pi$$ me off, particularly when I’ve staked my grandkids eyesight on the fact that I’m telling the truth.
Perhaps you ladies could PM each other to continue your tiff
It’s understandable that posters are getting bored with it John, for my part I’ll say no more after this.
It severely annoyed me to be offhandedly declared a liar by someone who’s never even met me.
My story of our free bus ride in Australia was the truth, my hand to God, now to other things.

Darth Paul

1,652 posts

217 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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droopsnoot said:
I used to get the bus home from the pub, it was a great service that used to run at 11.25pm, just about exactly the right time, back when the majority of pubs actually stopped serving at 11pm. Then the bus became 11.05pm, then 10.55pm, and then changed the route so it only went half-way, but for the same price. I gave up in the end. Unfortunately I was often the only one on it, so I can see why it might not make them much money - usually the night when a few were waiting would be the night when it didn't turn up.

These days the only time I go on a bus is when I go into Chester and use the Park and Ride - £2 for travel in and out of the city and parking for as long as I like.
Same here. I’ll get the bus into town to go to the pub. £2.40 compared to at least £7 taxi so I’m getting nearly two pints for free! Timetable has changed recently though so getting back now involves a longer walk home. Tried using it for work though and it’s terrible. A 15 minute car journey to the train station becomes an hour, door to train. They used to sync quite nicely but again a timetable change put paid to that. I’m getting an ebike for the train station run as it’s probably quicker than the car getting back through the rush hour traffic.

towser44

3,472 posts

114 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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Last December to go to a Xmas meal in the next town. The journey was about 3 miles and took literally 5 minutes (along a very dark, busy main road so walking is dangerous really). Cost me £5.50 for a return journey because in the wisdom of the bus company you can't buy a single or a return ticket to a certain stop, you have to pay for a day rider ticket which allows you to cover a million miles in a day, whether you want to do that or just go to the next stop!

vikingaero

10,256 posts

168 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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I was on the airport bus from the gate to the plane yesterday. Made a mockery of paying for priority boarding. All the priority boarders went through the gate first and got seats on the bus. I got the last standing space on the door and was first up the steps onto the plane!

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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Not a bus, but a water bus. I've started using the Hythe ferry a couple of times a week so I can run home from work (via the ferry). I can leave work at 17.10, be at the ferry for 17.30, 10mins across the water and home by 18.00. 50mins door to door and an almost 4-mile run. It takes about 45 mins to drive around.



I do it for a combination of reasons, fitness mostly, but I also feel we should all be doing a bit towards making transport more sustainable. I tend to cycle to work a couple of times a week too. Southampton traffic is so bad, doing it under my own steam cost me so little time its a no brainer really.

L1OFF

3,360 posts

255 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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Last summer me and the other half decided to go into our local town (3 miles) Sherborne on the local hopper type community bus (saves parking and a quiet couple of swift ones in the pub). I had a couple of pound coins in my hand (used to London charges) that will be £8.40 said the driver, no only the next stop please said I. Yes that's right he said £8.40. Now I've previously had to get a taxi back from Sherborne rail station and that only cost me £5.50.

witko999

629 posts

207 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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I literally never use busses. A bus into town costs about £2.70 or something for a 15 minute journey, whereas a taxi takes ten minutes and costs £4. It's not worth the utter misery of the bus experience to save that much.

grumpy52

5,565 posts

165 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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If I have to go into town I go on the bus as it gets into the very centre of town. Even with a blue badge I cannot park anywhere near to where I want to get to.
Book online for journeys and it's a bit cheaper ,if I have more than one place to go to I buy a day rider for a few pence more than a one stop return journey . Via the app I can monitor the bus and check the timetable.
The bus stop is 40 meters from my front door .
Unfortunately the service ends by 7pm .

survivalist

5,614 posts

189 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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With exception of the busses that sometimes take you from the plane to your terminal it was 2012 - used to get the bus back from my mates local pub until he moved away.

I’m not adverse to the idea, but my local busses are infrequent, expensive and rarely go directly to places I want to go to.

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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FiF said:
Sorry for the selective quote, but agree. I think some of the comments on the thread really demonstrate the divide between public transport provision in large urban areas and rural locations, sometimes not that far away from urban centre.
Very much so. I've never been a fan of cities but I'm currently living on the outskirts of one where I have access to a level of public transport I've never had before, and I find it really convenient.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 21st February 2020
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I get the bus back when dropping the Porsche in for a service.

hutchst

3,696 posts

95 months

Saturday 22nd February 2020
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gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Saturday 22nd February 2020
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RizzoTheRat said:
FiF said:
Sorry for the selective quote, but agree. I think some of the comments on the thread really demonstrate the divide between public transport provision in large urban areas and rural locations, sometimes not that far away from urban centre.
Very much so. I've never been a fan of cities but I'm currently living on the outskirts of one where I have access to a level of public transport I've never had before, and I find it really convenient.
That is basically the difference isn’t it.

Before I moved into a city busses were not on my radar really. Expensive, irregular and taking circuitous routes to capture as many people as possible with as few routes as possible (saving money but making them even less attractive).

In the city they are cheap, regular and take direct routes, filling in gaps between other transit options.

When transit is well connected it’s not about taking a bus vs something else, it is just taking the route that makes the most sense which may happen to be a bus, tram, subway, train etc



Patch1875

4,893 posts

131 months

Saturday 22nd February 2020
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Twice last night. Edinburgh has an excellent bus service.

RC1807

12,483 posts

167 months

Saturday 22nd February 2020
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L1OFF said:
Last summer me and the other half decided to go into our local town (3 miles) Sherborne on the local hopper type community bus (saves parking and a quiet couple of swift ones in the pub). I had a couple of pound coins in my hand (used to London charges) that will be £8.40 said the driver, no only the next stop please said I. Yes that's right he said £8.40. Now I've previously had to get a taxi back from Sherborne rail station and that only cost me £5.50.
Bloody hell! No wonder people don't use buses often in the UK, but you are "in the sticks". wink
I buy tickets on an App. They're €16 for 10 tickets, and each ticket when validated on the app is good for 2 hours travel time - bus, tram or train. smile

Allanv

3,540 posts

185 months

Saturday 22nd February 2020
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L1OFF said:
Last summer me and the other half decided to go into our local town (3 miles) Sherborne on the local hopper type community bus (saves parking and a quiet couple of swift ones in the pub). I had a couple of pound coins in my hand (used to London charges) that will be £8.40 said the driver, no only the next stop please said I. Yes that's right he said £8.40. Now I've previously had to get a taxi back from Sherborne rail station and that only cost me £5.50.
Bristol to Glastonbury day rider = £7.50 roughly 27 miles, although it is a 40 minute walk to the bus stop.

Home to town return = £5.50 roughly 3 miles.

Makes no forking sense.

Octoposse

2,152 posts

184 months

Saturday 22nd February 2020
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Yesterday - visiting the Tutankhamun exhibition in London, and took the number 11 from there through to Liverpool Street just to entertain the children afterwards. Wrong direction . . . but upstairs at the front.

Come Monday be back in our slightly down-at-heel South Coast town . . . bus from outside our house, boy gets off outside school, I stay on to work a mile further.

Decent service, about four quid a day for unlimited travel, and I can justify getting a 996 this year to stay in the garage most days as I have an eighty seater (with driver . . . a couple of whom are really rather gorgeous) as my 'daily'. Can be moderately unpleasant waiting in the rain on a bad day though.