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Green Man
Rich wrote: Lester Pidgeon wrote: Green Man wrote: Nothing works in the UK
Public transport in London and the South East is excellent.
It's the pits in Milton Keynes where you might expect it to be really good in the new city. You're better off on a pushbike.
I went to a show in June at the theatre and decided on public transport to and from the venue for the first time in a very long time. Big mistake. Coming out of the show at just 10.20pm I discovered I could not get home as there were no further buses on a main route back home. The last late bus was 10pm in an area like that! I couldn't believe it, outside the theatre in the main central MK too. So it was a taxi. The electronic timetable was a pack of fiction too at the stop beside the theatre, and even an number I used to track the next bus on an app told a load of lies, there was no next bus.
Don't tell Barney that, he tells you it's nothing to worry about, and it's marvellous. It's madness that a city like M.K. has no night buses from the venues to the main routes. Google Maps is better than any bus timetable; it gives you real-time information, whilst the electronic ones don't for some odd reason.
I did give a friend's lift home into Devizes, which didn't take long, about 30 mins or so, but it's another town where public transport is pretty much non-existent thanks to Dr Beeching again.
Devizes is doing well in the live music scene, I have been told, but without your transport, you are stuck unless you want to go to Swindon and see real-life zombies and see a mother and son snogging behind the train station. I haven't set foot in the town since then. Swindon can keep The Vic.
Winchester is only a tiny place; if it didn't have a Cathedral, it would just be like any other small market town. They have a night bus to Alton; I suppose you can get a bus from Alton into Surrey; I have not looked at the logistics in great depth. I haven't been to Surrey in ages; the last time I went was to buy a second-hand pickup truck.
Who did you live see, Rich, out of interest?
In the States, they use TNT to remove whales.
Rich
Lester Pidgeon wrote: Green Man wrote: Nothing works in the UK
Public transport in London and the South East is excellent.
It's the pits in Milton Keynes where you might expect it to be really good in the new city. You're better off on a pushbike.
I went to a show in June at the theatre and decided on public transport to and from the venue for the first time in a very long time. Big mistake. Coming out of the show at just 10.20pm I discovered I could not get home as there were no further buses on a main route back home. The last late bus was 10pm in an area like that! I couldn't believe it, outside the theatre in the main central MK too. So it was a taxi. The electronic timetable was a pack of fiction too at the stop beside the theatre, and even an number I used to track the next bus on an app told a load of lies, there was no next bus.
Rich
Downing Street Cat wrote: Rich wrote: Is there still the naturist beach there that they made a big thing about opening in about 1980, and if so is it popular?
I might visit Rich, and make it instantly unpopular. Unless they presume it's a beached whale. lol.
You might find they put the Sky copter up and make a Sky News story if you do!
It depends on the town, Barney and where they go. Where I live, there is one bus an hour and the last bus is 6 PM.
Give your head a wobble once in a while.
Lester Pidgeon
Many recent surveys have confirmed increased satisfaction with south eastern transport services - with an acceptance that the 'one man on a bus' sight is unacceptable.
During the week, three buses an hour are commonplace; on a Sunday they usually have a interval of over an hour. Quite reasonable - particularly as their exact location is visible on the app.
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