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Re: To many buses
I think that the public transport system is in a mess,full stop. It seems to make little sense for the government to beg and plead with people to use public transport when, compared with the car, it is so expensive, uncomfortable and inconvenient.
I travel quite often between Accrington and Blackpool on the train, and there are times when I cannot hear myself think for the screaching of kids, the bellowing of idle parents unable to control them, dung heads who cannot be separated from their mobile phones and insist on conducting their conversations at a level that includes the whole carriage. Add to this the yobs who have no idea of how to conduct themselves in public and the generally dirty and unpleasant conditions of stations and trains and THE COST and you can easily see why those who can, prefer to drive.
All right, I am getting more cantenkerous as I get older and I am really looking forward to getting my pension book then I can really let rip with the 'crotchety old git' thing. But come on, is standing for ages in the cold and rain at Accrington Station and then being confined like cattle for the duration of the tedious journey, with people that you don't know, and wouldn't want to know even if you did, a viable and desireable solution for the 21st century? I don't think so.
As Proust observes, ' Hell is other people.'
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