The Government is a sham when it comes to Net Zero
Bus services around me are a joke, it’s no wonder everyone drives here
This is what frustrates me about the anti-car crowd. So many put the cart before the horse, and hate on drivers while refusing to admit most of the country lacks an alternative.
We recently had our bus service change from a small bus to what only can be described as a shit ice cream van. The thing is ALWAYS packed and if you use any sort of walking aid, get fucked because you’re not getting on thanks to the woman with the pram who is always taking the disabled spot.
So, the bus service was shit, people stopped using it because it’s shit, bus service got chopped due to lack of use, now the bus service is even more shit, colour me surprised!
Anecdotal but the _one_ bus that could get me from my town to the town where I work (12 miles):
1. Still departed from ~4 miles away from me, requiring me to get a 30 minute bus to it
2. Took 40 minutes itself to go the ~12 miles to the other town
3. Got fucking cancelled anyway last year
If I want to get public transport to my work the quickest route is now to get a _train_ 25 miles in the complete opposite direction to find the nearest service.
I don’t want to be forced to use a car, but I will if I have to. And before anyone starts; no I can’t cycle, half of it is unlit country roads over the mendips, and I have no shower at work. I will die a muddy sweaty man.
Wales: We’re incentivising people to use public transport
Also Wales: btw we’re cutting all the funding for busses to pay for a new tram stop in Cardiff Bay, a £10m consultation on 1km of railway siding that’s not getting built anyway and all the new 20 signs.
I can’t drive. I can’t see well enough to drive even with visual aids. My local bus has been cut to two busses each way a day (and are timetabled to be useless for anything other than leisure travel) and busses that go out of town have had their drivers and fleet numbers reduced so much that if a bus fails, or there’s delays, there’s no relief bus/driver so it disappears from the timetable. It’s currently about as reliable as a dodgy mechanics cost estimate.
I was in Exeter and the buses were awful, but in Nottingham they’re amazing. It seems to be very uneven as well
“Outside London, bus services plummeted by more than 60% in 80 local authority areas, the study added.”
Well that explains why the Government doesnt care
I don’t understand Tories. They wanna cut everything until it no longer works / exists. Then what? Like what’s the plan? I just don’t get it.
The Guardian wants hords of busses running with one or two people on them most the time.
I suggest the Guardian increases its font size and print just 3 words a page with one in every 20 being allowed normal font and full page text. Then see how long they run the same number of stories.
So. Back in the 60s the government promised that all the rural railways they were closing down would be instead covered by busses instead.
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The Government is a sham when it comes to Net Zero
Bus services around me are a joke, it’s no wonder everyone drives here
This is what frustrates me about the anti-car crowd. So many put the cart before the horse, and hate on drivers while refusing to admit most of the country lacks an alternative.
We recently had our bus service change from a small bus to what only can be described as a shit ice cream van. The thing is ALWAYS packed and if you use any sort of walking aid, get fucked because you’re not getting on thanks to the woman with the pram who is always taking the disabled spot.
So, the bus service was shit, people stopped using it because it’s shit, bus service got chopped due to lack of use, now the bus service is even more shit, colour me surprised!
Anecdotal but the _one_ bus that could get me from my town to the town where I work (12 miles):
1. Still departed from ~4 miles away from me, requiring me to get a 30 minute bus to it
2. Took 40 minutes itself to go the ~12 miles to the other town
3. Got fucking cancelled anyway last year
If I want to get public transport to my work the quickest route is now to get a _train_ 25 miles in the complete opposite direction to find the nearest service.
I don’t want to be forced to use a car, but I will if I have to. And before anyone starts; no I can’t cycle, half of it is unlit country roads over the mendips, and I have no shower at work. I will die a muddy sweaty man.
Wales: We’re incentivising people to use public transport
Also Wales: btw we’re cutting all the funding for busses to pay for a new tram stop in Cardiff Bay, a £10m consultation on 1km of railway siding that’s not getting built anyway and all the new 20 signs.
I can’t drive. I can’t see well enough to drive even with visual aids. My local bus has been cut to two busses each way a day (and are timetabled to be useless for anything other than leisure travel) and busses that go out of town have had their drivers and fleet numbers reduced so much that if a bus fails, or there’s delays, there’s no relief bus/driver so it disappears from the timetable. It’s currently about as reliable as a dodgy mechanics cost estimate.
I was in Exeter and the buses were awful, but in Nottingham they’re amazing. It seems to be very uneven as well
“Outside London, bus services plummeted by more than 60% in 80 local authority areas, the study added.”
Well that explains why the Government doesnt care
I don’t understand Tories. They wanna cut everything until it no longer works / exists. Then what? Like what’s the plan? I just don’t get it.
The Guardian wants hords of busses running with one or two people on them most the time.
I suggest the Guardian increases its font size and print just 3 words a page with one in every 20 being allowed normal font and full page text. Then see how long they run the same number of stories.
So. Back in the 60s the government promised that all the rural railways they were closing down would be instead covered by busses instead.
So yeah that was a lie.