Buses
 

When was the last time you used a bus?

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Yesterday morning. I use them most days, and for that end buy a 4 weekly ticket.

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4/5 years ago a weekend before Christmas to avoid the mad people in the car park.

Then it started snowing.

About a year ago.

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With me it's been easily 23 years.

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I'm the same.

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Last night, it's good having a Concessionary Plus travel pass.

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The last time l took a bus was 7 years ago.

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Thursday 19/3/2015, I use them about 3 times a week.

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Tuseday. We have 13 buses an hour to Oxford during the day and I have a free bus pass.

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I used one last Friday afternoon for the first time in a long time to go to Cardiff with a mate to celebrate my birthday. We decided to use the bus because the train station is a 15 minute walk from town.

After just a mile or so of the jerking, weaving up hill and down hill through the traffic I felt sick. When we came home the following day we used the train, it was relaxing, took 42 minutes instead of 1 hour and 12 minutes like the bus.

We had a nice gentle stroll from the station enjoying the fresh air and we wont be using my bright idea of the bus again.

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Christmas time when we were visiting my mother in Cornwall as the car is US at the moment. One nice thing is that they run double deckers and from the top you can see over the granite walls on the roadside. A view normally denied to the car driver.

Never used one in our home town though.

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My local bus firm doesn't really seem to like me trying to use the bus service in my chair so I must admit I either use the local community bus service or don't bother with the bus at all and have to find another way.

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Before we got the car we used to hate going on the bus as there always seemed to have some noisy riff raff on there at certain times of the day and night.

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Cardiff centre has been made more-and-more car-unfriendly.

So it's use the bus and get stuck in traffic jams, or use the car and get stuck in traffic jams.

At least on the bus I get to read whilst travelling.

However, the bus fares have gone up again (£3.60 for return ticket for about 3 miles each way), so I shall be ignoring the centre completely soon enough.

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I refuse to pay the ridiculous fares..it's cheaper to pay to park than catch the bus.

Roll on May and hopefully a free OAP bus pass if the government haven't stopped them.If they have I'll be driving until they remove my car keys from my cold,dead,wrinkled hand. Especially as they now have removed one bus service and half the bus stops and I have to walk further to find a bus stop.

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Osem Jnr. uses the local buses a lot - he's on one now on his way to football. He uses a PAYG Oyster which means each bus journey costs £1.50 with a daily cap of £4.40 after which any bus travel is free. It's great value I reckon.

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l think where the buses let people down are away from the big metropolitan cities where bus travel is much dearer and where quite a few routes have been cut in the last few years.

My sister came from London to Gosport to live and she commented to me how few buses they were sometimes especially after a certain time of day.

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Trouble is, bus companies rely on council subsidies for bus services, and with council tax either being cut (ha ha) or frozen, councils always look to the bus subs for savings. Here in Stevenage, and throughout Herts as well really, there is talk of scrapping all subbed services Monday to Saturday after 19:30 and all subbed services on Sundays, with the exception of those services which stop at hospitals.

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So much for Beeching all those years again when many lines were closed saying that the buses would fill in all these places where there are no train services now.:(

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I see most people buying day savers, I think the best ticket to buy is the "any bus" £5.20

I'll be hopping on a bus within the hour to Eccles.

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In Stevenage, an all day ticket for every Arriva bus in Stevenage is £3.80 whereas an all day that covers you throughout Herts, Beds and Bucks costs £7.50. I buy the 4 weekly Stevenage ticket, costs £48 but means I don't need to worry about keeping a load of coin for a bus ticket. Load it on your phone, flash it at the driver and that's it.

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Now i have a bus pass and find it very difficult some days to drive since my stroke i tend to use the bus once or twice a week.

Last time i used the bus was on Thursday morning.

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On one now... A little 28 seater, Bumpy as hell.

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Think I've used one within the last year, now I'm living in town I tend to walk, bike, get train or taxi, when I need a bus they tend not to be running and don't go a quick way to where I want to.

I like not driving and would rather pay more and spend longer on a train than drive some places!

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O'k to have a free bus pass but no good here in suburbs of Leeds after 7.30pm or on a Sunday!
Faced with a walk up a steep hill taking 15-20min, with me it's a case of taxi or get the car out as no buses running not even to the hospital.

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I used to use buses almost daily but in Glasgow a single trip 5 stops or less is £1.20 or anything over 5 stops is £1.95. You can get an all day ticket for £4.10, but unless you plan on getting more than two buses its not worth it. There are also weekly tickets and 4 weekly tickets.

However I have just moved and a train from Rutherglen to Glasgow is only £2.30 return or £2.10 off peak so its so much cheaper and faster to use the trains.

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Can't remember the last time I got on a bus. It's either a taxi or a train for me now. Some of them round here only run every hour.

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I am very lucky as the number 90 bus is every 15 minutes.

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Too true, I took my nephew up my town by bus it took nearly 20 mins each way and cost nearly £7, the car park would have cost £2 for 3 hours.