Location Transport

Are you happy with public transport in your area, the government want us to use the buses and trains more but?

they can be expensive and very often late, travelling by car is much more convenient.

Public Comments

1. ..and comfortable too. Plus you don't have to endure the oddballs that use public transport; or the whiffy smells of summer and body odours..
2. No..................don't use it because it is very unclean and I enjoy living.
3. We have one bus a day. Today it will come here, tomorrow it will go back.
4. it is but still, i get the bus to and from work it is late, expensive and annoying people get on it, but still, it's for a cause, this is not to say we don't use the car though.
5. I would spend most of the day travelling if I used public transport. I wouldnt be able to do half the things i do now either. its not an option for me, besides I have better things to do with my time thanstand for 2 hours at a windy bus stop to be told there is no room! I am not a bus snob..my ex husband is a bus driver...its more down to practicalities.
6. At the moment I travel to & from work by train because I don't have a car. If I had a car it would take me 20 mins, by train it currently takes me an hour. 20 mins of that is sitting about at the connecting station.The trains are often late & without any explaination or apology. I am saving up for a car before I start university because that's further away & I've had enough of expensive fares & poor service.
7. Where i live the trains are always full to bursting,They keep putting the prices up to deter people from using them.Big joke.Then they get more taxpayers money to line their pockets.
8. The problem is that the Tories sold off the trains and deregulated bus services, so the current government is left with a double problem: why buy back the trains (and make the shareholders richer) and why subsidise private companies with public money? If they are getting public money, they should be publicly owned. The car isn't always more convenient, especially when travelling alone. If I am going into town, I find the bus is much cheaper than the petrol and parking fees combined, and doesn't have the hassle of finding a parking space. As for longer journies, the car is certainly cheaper, especially when taking passengers.
9. I use my car never use public transport to expensive to unreliable, it's about time the government acknowledged the huge sums of money car owners contribute to the economy
10. Nope. The nearest place I can get a bus is about three quarters of a mile away from my house; there are hardly any buses after about 7 at night; there are fewer buses on Saturdays and hardly any on Sundays; most buses have a frequency of only once an hour or even less and to top it all they have a habit of leaving early so you miss them even when you're on time.
11. NO. It doesn't go from where I am to where I want to be and it takes much longer. If I have paid for my car, its tax and its insurance the running cost is much less than using public transport - about one quarter if only one person is in the car even less if you have passengers. Public transport would have to at least be free and possibly pay me to use it before I did so, RoyS