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I went to town today to collect some PC speakers off Margaret Pilkington (Thanks Margaret!) and pick up some floor tiles for my mum and I had walked into town and hadn't really contemplated how I was going to actually get home. Fortunately I had a last £10 in my bank otherwise I'd have had to carry them all the way to the top end of ossy.

Anyway, I got the M&M bus because it happened to be there at the time and even better, I knew it stopped right outside my house, so I wouldn't have to walk up the steep hill. Now whilst on the bus I was thinking how pleasant and yet rare it was to find a bus driver quite like the chap that drives that bus, yet so many people seem to turn their noses up at the little bus.

Wouldn't it be a shame to lose that service?

What else can you think of around the local towns that aren't appreciated as much as they should be?

And again, thanks Margaret :) and thanks to Pam1 who also helped me out recently! It's been a real help.

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Yeh Ive been getting M & M buses to work every morning. The only thing I dont like is when they stop at the traffic lights for you and the bus starts to move whilst you get off!

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as the guys doin ya a favour,letting ya get off at the lights, aint a reasonable gripe/:)

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What a sad area we live in!

Travelling on a bus is a highlight?

No it isn't, it's something we the populace should expect and if maggie hadn't done her privatising with public transport it should, could, would, have been a darn site better than it is now.

Anybody remember all the clapped out buses that were brought out of retirement and given licences when the scheme first started? No wonder checks even today take buses off the road, when the local councils ran it at least they had proper maintenance and a time-table resembling reality could be published.

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But Less, it is the man himself that is what makes the service good, his personality is what makes it a pleasure to get on.

There is nothing wrong with the main bus service but the drivers are miserable and I'm pretty sure that Maggie had more of an effect and lasting impression on the man that drives the M&M's bus than the much younger drivers of the main buses.

Besides, I haven't ever seen Labour do anything to support small local businesses so it is hardly something you can just blame Maggie for. Labour is just as bad for leaving things how they are.

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I dont get the bus anymore...its a bloody rip off!!

:D

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Will you please go out and get drunk, then stay drunk enough to keep your fingers off the keyboard? The web isn't ready to compensate for your wanderings, it's too busy trying to keep up with mine!
:p

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If they brought back bus conductors, then I would consider travelling by bus...
But late at night I would not feel safe...
I feel so sorry for the drivers when things kick off; and they often do.
My dad was a bus driver for 20 years and hated it when they got rid of the conductors:
so my car it is:
The same goes with trains... the stations need people in addition to cameras for
security:

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M & M buses are old bangers but if one of theirs arrives at the stop first I get on.
The alternative is a Transdev monopoly which would drive up fares.

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I do come on here drunk sometimes :p especially when I'm at uni. I would honestly like to know whether people think there are things that go under appreciated in the town though so that I too might think, ah yes, and enjoy it a bit more.

I guess one of the things back in the day would have been the arndale clock, but you don't really appreciate things like that til they are gone.

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Never had any problems with the drivers on Transdev, they all seem quite cheerful to me. Can understand people using the M&M bus as it saves the drag uphill but always found them to be quite poky and quite often non to clean

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i appreciated most of the boozers very much,until they did away with vaults n stuff n opened em all out n made " Plastic Pubs".:(

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Think the via-duct (railway arches) is unappreaciated. Never get tired of looking at it.

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Would second that. Also our canals. We walk them , cycle them, fish them, take them for granted. But not every town has a canal running through it. And when you think of the many years... and the graft that that was involved to build them.... Restoration is long overdue in some areas.

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Good ones those, the canal and the viaduct .. yes, we are lucky to have those.

I appreciate being able to start up a conversation with a total stranger, and they respond without any sort of prejudice.

Of course, the Coppice, how many towns have this facility to view the whole of Hyndburn from a viewing point such as this.

Believe it or not, I appreciate our Town Councillors, well, someone has to do it, and take the knocks they come across every day .. :D

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I guess I lucked out. Kingston is a beautiful little city, perfectly located almost halfway between Montreal and Toronto, with Ottawa only an hour and a half away. Troulble is, when one lives here one doesn't appreciate it as one should. People travel thousands of kms to see our city, the lake, the Thousand Islands, the beautiful old limestone buildings, great shops, bars and restuarants. But once you begin to take it all for granted, it just becomes a place to live. Still, all in all, I'm glad I live here.

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Blazey... is this the same guy that puts the deccies up at Xmas?
Agree they are pokey and grubby, but cheaper too, but assume they are safe, and get on one if they are in.
Would also agree that some on the trans dev service can be abrupt. came accross one the other day. Suppose there are annoying drivers on all services though.

One of my faves used to be the scottish guy who used to do the merlin drive pilky's service a couple of years ago, he was a laugh and cheered you up.
But you can't beat "henlegs"... Frank. Is he still on the buses? Don't catch buses often these days. Remember him going back to the 60s, lol :)

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Actually, the M&M bus cost me 10p more than the trans dev one, but it DID drop me off outside my house rather than the bottom of new lane so at least I saved some energy!

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I was talking about the same route along Blackburn road, to Church, It was cheaper than Trans Dev last time I used it.

Was it the Xmas deccies guy by the way?

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I could name the most underappreciated highlight of our town of all...but I won't, because I know MargaretR and Katex would be down on me like a ton of bricks! ;)

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Puzzled:confused: - but bricks ready

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Sorry, Margaret, not allowed to mention it on here. :D

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Despatched south- (for having naughty thoughts)

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No, it's nothing like that...it's a "facility" that dozens of towns around the country would give their eye teeth to have...but one that's only appreciated by around a thousand or so people around Accy.

Ow! that brick hurt...and it was a Nori, too!

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asda ? ;)

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If only it was so well patronised!