Self-fulfilling prophecy (Buses in general)

Member Name: jennikitten

Product:	Buses in general
Date:	26/11/08 (80 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Easy to get around - mostly!

Disadvantages: Can be inconvenient and unreliable

As I've lived in the north west, the east midlands and now the south west, I've had a lot of experience of public transport, especially trains and buses.

I don't have a car, so I rely on trains and buses to travel long distances, particularly when I need to go to Nottingham to visit my friends or Manchester to visit my family.

In Manchester and Nottingham, I was spoilt for buses. Nottingham in particular is an easy city to get around, but particularly by bus, as there are buses every 10-15 minutes, which run until the early hours of the morning, up until around 3am I think, and then start back up again at 5 or 6am. They also run to Derby and Leicestershire and places like that.

The town I live in now however, whilst very large and should really be a city, has terrible buses. They only run until 6pm, and there are about every half hour or one hour on Sundays. This makes my journey very difficult when coming off the train from a 4 or 5 hour journey home, because it means I have to leave very early to get a bus back or pay another £15 for a taxi (almost half the cost of my train fare to travel 200 miles!).

Not many people use the buses here, though I'm not sure if it's because the public transport is so rubbish, or because the lack of people makes it rubbish? I know now how lucky I was before though - wish I could drive!

Summary: Depends where you live