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Originally Posted by steeljack
Sorry and no offense intended to Max taxi , but I can remember the days when there were things called Accrington Corporation Buses that served all parts of the the Borough (Hyndburn) for less than 2 shillings (10d)per trip and they ran on a regular 15/20 minute schedule , never heard once of any trouble (last bus Friday/Saturday night) folks knew how to behave or were 'turfed off' and had to walk .
Seems to me looking back (maybe through rose coloured glasses ) you could get off the Ossy bus and jump onto the Haslingden (sp?) bus with a 5 minute connection time in either direction .
The prolification of taxi services in a western society seems to me to be a regressive step backwards to third world standards where community standards have failed .
sorry just my thoughts on the subject  |
I lived in Clayton for 21yrs and never took one taxi. Spent my bus fare (plus) at the chippy and walked home from Accrington stuffing my face .... and I only fell in the cut twice. And the colors of the Accrington Corporation Transport were the regimental colors of the East Lancashire Regiment, a memorial to the Pals, if memory serves me right ... if it serves me wrong, Retlaw will pick up on it. And almost every stop coincided with a pub .... loved Route No. 1, Forts Arms to the Black Dog: a pint of Thwaites at each end.
Maybe the glasses weren't rose colored, but they held a pint.
Isn't there a little syntactical redundancy in "regressive step backwards"? Just a little pedantry on a beautiful, drunken, late summer night.
