Public Transport in general Reviews

Most of you will have used public transport at some time or another and possibly like me have to use it most days. I generally don't have an issue when using trains etc as that is only rare. My main problem is the day to day issues that come with taking the bus. My local bus service in Edinburgh is apparently one of the best around and ...  Read the complete review

In the new year, our local bus service (Travel West Midlands) did their usual price increase - this time making a single ticket jump from £1.50 to £1.70 and a day ticket from £3.30. Given that in many cases petrol prices are set to fall, I cannot see any reason or justification for such high prices when the service that they provide is so dismal. ...  Read the complete review

I keep reading in the paper and hearing on the radio and television that I should be using public transport more to help the country and to save the environment. So I try to do my bit and if I go anywhere on my own, especially into my local city of Manchester, I tend to use my train. Everytime I do this, I have somehow mysteriously ...  Read the complete review

I really fought to use public transport. It took me up until 22 before I even started taking driving lessons, and that was reluctantly. However, as it stood, I simply couldn't rely on public transport any longer. Why is that? Well, as most people do nowadays, I used to live in one town and work in another - only twenty minutes away by ...  Read the complete review

In many foreign countries I have visited, public transport is cheap and efficient, so everyone uses it! Here is it expensive and unreliable so many of us don't use! I am quite into the environment and often walk places, for longer journey's I would love to be able to leap on a bus. Where I live we get one bus an hour, but they are often ...  Read the complete review

When talking about "public transport" I think the first question is how "public" we want it to be? Should transport be available to everyone, and in this case, who should pay, or should it be run as a profitable enterprise, and in this case, is it fair? I believe that public transport needs to be ...  Read the complete review

The public transport system where I live in Northampton is not too bad and for a day travel card for use on the bus it is £2.50 which allow you to take as many trips as you like however the only problem with this is that there are more than one bus company operating in town and therefore it is not ood for every route. The service near ...  Read the complete review

Public Transport- good or bad? I am glad there is a general section for public transport as I have mixed feelings about it that are non-specific to any provider. I am looking purely at buses and trams as I don't really use trains (am slightly phobic of them, or taxi's as they are too expensive) I used to live in ...  Read the complete review

There are three main examples I want to give as my experience of public transport. The first: village buses. I grew up in a fairly small village in Nottinghamshire. We did have a bus service... officially. The buses were scheduled to turn up about five times a day. They would then go round every single village in the area ...  Read the complete review

We all know that our planet is suffering form too many gas emissions and we all know that public transport is the answer to this. In Uk public transport is relatively more expensive than in other countries in Europe. In London I find that the cost of transport is really high compared to other European cities. The question is ...  Read the complete review

'We should all try to use public transport more - think of the effect on the environment!' Being a poor poor student (oh woe is me) I cannot afford a car and so have to travel everywhere using the wonders that is public transport. Now, if I win the lottery (unlikely since I don't play) would I A. Buy a car ASAP B. Weigh up the pros and cons ...  Read the complete review

Or why public transport isn't the peoples friend. I awoke with the sun shining straight in my eyes. The winds of the night had blown the curtains open just enough to allow the 7am sun to stream in directly onto my face. Blinking and rather irritable, I flicked all the covers on to the sleeping body of my wife. She mumbled barely ...  Read the complete review

I have been meaning to spread the word about the tubes for some time now, not that you (if you live in London)are unaware of the complete trauma it involves when riding on the tube. My main concern when I first moved to London was that I would be chlostrophobic, but fortunately for me this was not the case, I dont mind standing bolt upright, ...  Read the complete review

*UPDATE* Aahh our beloved local council have come up with a new and improved way to get us onto the buses. How may you ask....more drivers, more buses, more efficiency, cheaper fares, more reliability? Well Duh!!! This is Bristol City Council! No their way to get people onto the buses is to raise the prices of car parking...by 66%!. In the ...  Read the complete review

The person who came up with the idea of buses (or public transport in general, for that matter) must have had a few screws loose. Only on public transport would you share the same breathing space as a complete stranger at such close proximity without feeling particularly uncomfortable or nervous about it, and without feeling the need to say ...  Read the complete review

When I first started Secondary School, or "big school" as it was unnecessarily re-named somewhat patronisingly by every grown up I encountered between June and September 1990, Not only was it the first time I had to tie my own Tie, instead of having one on a piece of elastic. But it was also the first time I had to catch a ...  Read the complete review

Public Transport I've read many opinions, both here on DooYoo, and elsewhere with regard to the use of cars and public transport. I fully advocate most schemes and motives to reduce the use of the motor car in our daily lives. But it seems obvious when reading most of these opinions, that the majority of writers live in urban areas ...  Read the complete review

Dooyoo works superbly when it - or rather, when you, its community - is in its element which, on my part, comes in the form of the hundreds of agreeably well-crafted, meticulous valedictory assessments of consumer products far and wide. The best ones are often those evaluated with an indiscriminate eye, something which is heartily valuable in many ...  Read the complete review

The key to life in a big city is communication - be it phone, internet, travel or postal. The key is TRANSPORT! It needs to be affordable, clean, well maintained and, above all else - RUN FREQUENTLY AND PUNCTUALLY. I live in London, I feel I am in a great city, living to the best of my limited means, but unable to have any sort of life ...  Read the complete review

The instructions say 'at least 75 words', so I feel justified in writing not a lot about this subject. I am not going to give you a run down of the London and UK public transport systems: who could be bothered? What I am going to do is say the following: It's all relative, innit? Born and raised in London, perhaps you are ...  Read the complete review