[Closed] Today, I had to go on a thing called a BUS 🙁 ...... 😉

Did those extra wheels make the road come alive?

PSA: For anybody the needs to meet and share lifts to Wales, that Portway Park & Ride car park is very handily located 🙂

Cheap at £3.

I'm in fear for the fella in the red jacket... NO HELMET!!

BUS ****ER

You sat in the priority seats?
tsk tsk.

#DDDoggingTips

Buses are like girlfriends.

The best ones are bendy.

Buses are like girlfriends.

Double decker? Ding dong!

On the way out I was at the front extra rough ride by the front wheels.

On the way back I elected to to sit at the rear. Just as rough but felt sea sick. Good job I just read Treasure Island 😉

Eurgh - I would have to bath in bleach for a week. You have my sympathy...

Did it start at your house ?
Did it drop you at your final destination?
Were you lucky enough to listen to Conner Maynard second hand through a very low quality distorted speaker played by a 13 year old telling her bessie mate exactly what she would like to do to the *lucky* Mr Maynard
Were you scowled at by Beatrice for sitting in 'her' seat , so couldn't share with Joyce . And then spend the entire trip pointing out the glaringly obvious to the aforementioned Joyce " Oh the suns very bright today Joyce " " Oh look Joyce a train "?
Was there a plethora of multicoloured chewing gum either in front or just under your seat?
Busses . Free for oldies so your ticket costs X amount more to cover it.

you can be arrested fro taking pictures of buses internaly and externally, anti terrorism laws it appears.

Nice mercedes bendi bus though, probably an ex london one asds Boris has the new electic diesel ones at a much higher cost.

I commute very day by bus

Albeit on rather luxurious buses that runs on their own dedicated busway [url= http://www.thebusway.info/ ]Busway[/url]

Bargain for £23.50 a week, much better than being stuck on the A14

singletrackmind - Member

Did it start at your house ?
Did it drop you at your final destination?

I have a bus stop and double yellows right outside my house, so i am actually closer to the bus than I am to my car. And if I go shopping in town (or indeed to my very part time 'other' job at the university) I am certainly closer to where I want to go than if i parked a car. Oh and £3 return on bus versus fuel and parking (£1.20 to £1.40 per hour depending on which car park) is a winner for fewer than three people sharing the car. Unless some are kids, in which case a family of four on the bus is still cheaper.

Buses are ace! 😀

After decades of never getting on a bus I have recently started using it with the kids. It's great; cheap, frequent, clean etc. was on it today to take youngest to a play centre. She thinks the bus is as much fun as the play centre, as long as it's a double decker.

Did those extra wheels make the road come alive?

No they just go round and round 😉

I travel by bus most days. ..just having a bus service every day counts as a good bus service in the Highlands.At £16 per week it's pretty good value though.

I like not having to drive, especially with a group or with the family. As previously mentioned I wish our bus into town was quicker.

The best ones are bendy.

No, the best ones have a large top deck and you can enter at the rear.

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what sized wheels and tyres on the bus go round and round?

Cougar - Moderator
Buses are like girlfriends.

None for ages then 2 come along at the same time?

None for ages then 2 come along at the same time?

Some pictures from today's bus trip...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/sets/72157636595478866/

The problem with buses is a lot of the general bus riding public smell a bit.

Were you wearing your [url=

pants[/url]?

The 'Express' poverty wagon from outside my house to the centre of Newcastle takes four and a half times as long to get complete the journey as my car. I dread having to drop the KTM off in town for its service and slum it home: I could kneel on a skateboard and fart-propel myself there quicker.

(I used to enjoy using the bus services in and around Bristol. Dead handy)

Cougar - Moderator
Buses are like girlfriends.

I dread having to drop the KTM off in town for its service and slum it home: I could kneel on a skateboard and fart-propel myself there quicker

Or ride a bike?

Took my lads on a double decker in Brum a few months ago. They loved it on the top deck. 🙂
There were no loonies on board luckily.

Has anyone seen my camel?

why does nobody ever smile on a bus?

in fact if they are smiling you pray they dont sit next to ya!

First Class is upstairs, right?

Given some of the comments on this thread the Single track forum is certainly becoming the preserve of the middle classes

God you lot are precious!

project - Member

you can be arrested fro taking pictures of buses internaly and externally, anti terrorism laws it appears.

I commute very day by bus...Albeit on rather luxurious buses that runs on their own dedicated busway

Cheers,
Jamie

Beaten to it by jamiea, lovely way to commute to work.

Open to all winds, often a snail massacre, the fun of the CRC section and the kids - wouldn't change it for anything!

Shame that it was so horrendously over-budget and was held back by the dispute with the contractors. Nice idea, would have preferred a proper train though.

I do have to ask though, how much has it cut traffic to Cambridge from that part of the area? The A14 still gets gridlocked and all the local roads (A1198, stand up, be recognised) are still packed in the mornings.

I do have to ask though, how much has it cut traffic to Cambridge from that part of the area?

Still, the government will solve the A14 with the new toll road. That won't impact other local roads at all 🙄

Cheers,
Jamie

The A14 as a road is fine, the problem with it is the quality of driving on it, 2 meters seems to be the maximum a lot of the users like to have as a breaking distance.

As for the traffic in the area, most employment is based in the centre/science park, so all the people from the smaller places around need to head there during the day, it's not a city designed for cars so it's never really going to be easy, still at least it's not one of the quickest growing cities in the country ... oh.

Finish work at 6pm then try and get a bus home, that one bus an hour, and why is it not successful again?

Atm I can't drive so taking the bus.
On the few journeys so far, the drivers are mostly o.k, however last week was a horrible grumpy little man. A lady cyclist came out of a quiet side road in front of the bus, driver pulls the front of the bus in (luckily she wasn't going at anything but walking speed) gets off and gives her a mouthful. She was very shaken up and couldn't stop apologising. Later he starts swearing at a van driver who had his door open, just an unpleasent journey in all. Oh and too many students 🙂

[i]Atm I can't drive so taking the bus.[/i]

Don't you work from home?

Or ride a bike?

yep, bike is quicker, a tad difficult carrying it on a motorbike though. Have seen it done mind you, so not so out there:

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God you lot are precious!

project - Member

you can be arrested fro taking pictures of buses internaly and externally, anti terrorism laws it appears.

Oh and this is total rubbish. Its a public place, so as long as you aren't using the pictures for personal profit its fine.

Yep right then. perhaps tell the police, and all the train enthusiasts who have been thrown off stations and had their camera equipment checked as part of anti terrorism worries.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/16/police-delete-tourist-photos

I love sitting on the top deck, right at the front on the left hand side making it feel like the bus is going to hit lamposts and parked cars and then just misses. Just introduced my kids to this and they loved it.

toby1 - Member
The A14 as a road is fine, the problem with it is the quality of driving on it, 2 meters seems to be the maximum a lot of the users like to have as a breaking distance.

It is not that. The A14 is the _only_ road that goes from the UK's biggest container port to anywhere in the midlands or the north. I've been saying for years that it needs to be three lanes, or they need to shift the container traffic onto rails, but the only solution seems to have been the toll idea cutting across nice farmland from Cambridge to Brampton.

Hell, I remember commuting every day from Woodbridge to the other side of Cambridge for 18 months and not once did I have a clear, traffic free drive in. I could guarantee that the A14 would be screwed with people waiting to go to the science park, with the queues going back to before the A1303 slip off on a regular basis. Coming back was better, but only because I could leave a bit layer and miss the FUBAR that the A428/M11/A14 is on a daily basis for anyone heading east in the morning and at kicking out time.

Sit at the back of the double decker bus and shout

LOW BRIDGE,DUCK,

is quite funny as well.

or when you get off a badly driven double decker, tell the driver you think someone has collapsed upstairs due to his heavy braking/ swerving and watch the colour drain from his face.

Don't you work from home?

Lol @ project.

Yep right then. perhaps tell the police, and all the train enthusiasts who have been thrown off stations and had their camera equipment checked as part of anti terrorism worries.

Officious and ill-informed police officers exceeding their authority doesn't make it law.