To catch a bus...or not Options

[lordtup]

I have just received an enquiry about local bus times ,so into W.B.C web site only to find that the timetable is conspicuous by it's absence .

I can apply to be a bus driver ( could solve the problem ) . I can complain about the service and even get the page translated to the language of my choice but no b****y timetable .

Little wonder that local transport is poorly subscribed to .

[Strafin]

Lordtup on a bus? Something must be up at Tup Hall.

http://www.newburyanddistrict.co.uk/

You'll find it here though.

[JeffG]

Well, I just googled Newbury Buses and found a JetBlack timetable to and from Reading, and some mention of a service to East Ilsley but no mention of the town services.

I see now why you went to the West Berks site since there is a link to them. I didn't know the Council was involved now - what happened to Reading Buses?

Anyway, following the link I got to this page. I then clicked on the link for Travel and Transport Guides, and then on the link to the pdf on the right side of the page which said "District Wide Travel Guide (including local bus timetables) - January 2013".

I think there should be enough timetables, route maps etc. in that document to satisfy your every need.

(Edit: Strafin's link seems to come up with the goods, too. All we need now is for someone to check there are no differences between the two versions . )

[Hugh Saskin]

Try the links on the right of the WBC page for all the other bus operators, too.

[lordtup]

Sorry one and all , just found my way into the timetable .
Need a degree in astrophysics to interpret , but it is there ,so sorry WBC for casting aspersions on your good name.

[Strafin]

It's alright, WBC are still utterly contemptible timetable or no timetable.

[lordtup]

I have now sorted the information required , thank you one and all for the helpful advise , even those who think that the aristocracy are not aware of public transport .

[GMR]

I have just received an enquiry about local bus times ,so into W.B.C web site only to find that the timetable is conspicuous by it's absence .

I can apply to be a bus driver ( could solve the problem ) . I can complain about the service and even get the page translated to the language of my choice but no b****y timetable .

Little wonder that local transport is poorly subscribed to .

You are right; it is a poor service. That is why I stopped using it and prefer the car nowadays. Even in London it was bad. The prices are going up but the service is going down.

[spartacus]

In my case it is down to the convenience of the car. It literally couldn't be easier for me to catch a bus to commute to work. A bus stop is directly outside the back door to my house (15 steps and I'd be into a waiting bus). A bus stop is directly outside the front door to my workplace. It's a service that operates every 30 minutes throughout the day...

I've tried it ONCE.... but I got pee'd off after waiting 10 minutes and so just jumped in the car and haven't tried it again....


10 minutes of boredom and checking/rechecking the timetable and my watch and huffing and puffing is all it took....

The only thing that will get me to change the way I get to work is if the price of petrol goes up to £2 per litre maybe (perhaps £3....) I prefer my own space with my own music in the background...

[NORTHENDER]

If you knew they ran every 30 minutes throughout the day like clockwork, why did you go out 10 minutes before its arrival time?

[spartacus]

If you knew they ran every 30 minutes throughout the day like clockwork, why did you go out 10 minutes before its arrival time?

'like clockwork' is not entirely what I said... and I probably should have said "It's a service that SHOULD operate every 30 minutes throughout the day..." Perhaps it was a bad day, perhaps the bus got held up, but I was out 5 or more minutes before the scheduled time and hung around 5 (more probably 10) minutes after it should have turned up... in the rain on a wet and windy day.... watching warm and comfy drivers whizzing past me on their way to work in their cars.....

I gave up very easily.....

[NORTHENDER]

Myself I would have picked a dry day to go and stand at the stop and and not a wet and windy one. But wot do I know, I'm just a poor ol country boy using country boy logic, stand in rain get wet, take car stay dry.

[Penelope]

Anyway, buses are for poor people.

[GMR]

Anyway, buses are for poor people.

Or those than have been banned from driving or can't drive.

[Penelope]

Or those than have been banned from driving or can't drive.

Oh, yes, the feckless and the stupid.

[GMR]

Oh, yes, the feckless and the stupid.

Them too

[dannyboy]

Oh, yes, the feckless and the stupid.

bored are we? or is it just your turn this week?

[GMR]

bored are we? or is it just your turn this week?

The reason people are on here (like yourself) is because they are bored. In other words they've got no life (or not much of a life beyond this forum). You've done 5,516 posts. You are third in the overall top posters and you accuse Penelope of being bored

[dannyboy]

The reason people are on here (like yourself) is because they are bored. In other words they've got no life (or not much of a life beyond this forum). You've done 5,516 posts. You are third in the overall top posters and you accuse Penelope of being bored

4516 posts for dannyboy.....

I was just wondering if it was her turn to be troll this week giving that he's having a good troll on this thread and the 'global warming' one.

[x2lls]

The reason people are on here (like yourself) is because they are bored. In other words they've got no life (or not much of a life beyond this forum). You've done 5,516 posts. You are third in the overall top posters and you accuse Penelope of being bored

NOw THERE's a wind up if ever there was.
You must be very bored and lifeless!!