Swap your car for a 2 year bus pass?

[yertis]

I quote from a "Quality of Life" survey which Bristol City Council has just had shoved through my letterbox:

Question 27. Would you be prepared to swap a car you own for a 2 year bus pass?

Er... no.

I suppose their definition of "Quality of Life" is a bit different from mine.

[Pinkney]

quote:I Question 27. Would you be prepared to swap a car you own for a 2 year bus pass?

You must be kidding me. Wouldn't do it if they paid me. I can remember a year or so ago when I was without a car for the evening and couldn't cadge a lift to get home. Had to get the bus to the town centre depot and hang around for 30-45minutes for a bus that could drop me about half a mile from home .

All in all it must have taken me over an hour and a half to do a journey it takes 10-15 minutes in the car. Imagine doing that every day! Quality of life, my ar$e

>> Edited by Pinkney on Sunday 1st September 13:38

[toyracer]

quote:
[All in all it must have taken me over an hour and a half to do a journey it takes 10-15 minutes in the car. Imagine doing that every day! Quality of life, my ar$e

totally agree - in order for me to get public transport to work (Farnham to Egham) it takes 3 train connections and around 90 minutes plus a long walk or bus - or I can take my car and do it in 35 minutes. hmm... let me see.... as for travelling anywhere in surrey alone it's a no-brainer (i.e. car!).

public transport is all very well in london and (sometimes!) in larger towns - but as soon as you want to go anywhere outside the periphery.. forget it. transport ministers would do well to consider these facts before spouting at how we should change our habits to public transport from cars

[DrSeuss]

quote:
public transport is all very well in london

No it isn't! I commute to work every day by train and Tube, and it's overcrowded, dirty, sweltering hot, and frequently unreliable - the other day, for instance, one loose electrical cable managed to paralyse the whole of the main section of the Central Line during the morning rush hour.

The Jubilee Line to Canary Wharf is heading for meltdown too - it's already nearing capacity, and yet CW is the largest construction site in Europe, with its working population set to quadruple in the next 5 years. In any other developed country, successive Govts would have got themselves organised and had transport plans ready well in advance to cope with this, but in Britain, no chance. The proposed CrossRail link from Paddington to Liverpool Street might be extended out to CW, and it might be built by 2010, but don't hold your breath...

No wonder Red Ken spent £5,500 of our money on taxi fares last year - the only time he ventures onto public transport is for the odd photo opportunity on a specially-chartered bus or Tube to say "Look - isn't it wonderful"...

But yes, despite all this, public transport in London is better than in the rest of the country. Depressing, isn't it? :wheresmecarkeys: