Public transport, the government want us to use it as a viable alternative to our hated car, the gas gussling pollution machines that we all are so linked to… There are however a number of drawbacks to actually using transport, firstly and foremost is the cost, I was looking into this and to get a day saver (which appears to be the best option of a bunch of bad ones) it would cost me £5 per day to travel by bus, opposed to £3.22 I calculated it to when you take into account, car tax, petrol and petrol tax, insurance and maintenance. So its already more expensive. To get to my place of work takes 3 busses as it is not on a main route..and then a walk anyway. So my first choice is not to go that way it also takes more time, 32 minutes in a car 2hrs 12 on the busses. So why would anyone here use them (we have 1000 employees in our location and the shopping area opposite must have thousands too. They then argue why not take a train…well we haven’t got one, that trip would be a payment on a tram to go 10 miles in the opposite direction to get a train back paying again to walk a mile from the station..and at a large cost…
Also who in their right mind would want to travel on a disgusting bus, that hasn’t been washed since purchase that the insides have been abused by every drunk in the borough graffiti and gum plus a whole host of bodily secretions have embedded the seats…plays against my car, I clean outside and tidy inside where I know what is going on in there whats been where and that I wont catch a disease from… If they want me to use the transport, the network has to be expanded to all areas, it has to be reasonably priced and it has to be clean…
Oh and as for the pollution aspect, there are thousands of busses on british roads and as of yet, there has to be a sighting of one that isn’t throwing out black smoke from the exhaust polluting worse than 10 clean running cars..come on government and councils get your act together, make it viable we might surprise you all….EOL
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