Lift 'share' - should I end the arrangement?

[HainaultViaNewburyPark]

I currently give someone a lift to work. I'm seriously thinking of stopping. She comes to my house (no way would I drive in the opposite direction to get her), and she is constantly 5-10 mins late. This really annoys me - especially as I only have a limited amount of childcare, so I'm not at all flexible with regard to working hours (she knew this from the outset).

She always has an excuse: lots of traffic so her walk across town took longer, alarm not going off, had to finish making her husbands lunch.

The thing is, we work on a very remote site. The public transport is very poor (1 bus per hour, and you still have to walk 15 mins from the bus stop in the village to our site - the route is very poorly lit and goes through the woods).

She has been learning to drive since January, but hasn't passed her test.

I'm not sure what to do. Would it be OK to simply say that it is no longer convenient, and that come January she needs to make other arrangements? Or do I need to wait until she can walk the route to the bus stop in the daylight?

^ exactly what Claw said.

If she's not there when you're ready to leave, you go without her.

She needs to be early!

I would end the lifts now. Tell her from Monday she needs to make other arrangements. She took the job presumably know the tricky transport arrangements ie bus so she can't blame you. Just say 'it's too stressful I am not doing it any more so from Monday 8 December you make your own arrangements'

It's not your job to give her a lift. And, btw , the law states you cannot use mobile in car when engine is running so you CANT use it even if work allowed you to !

I'm not sure she realised how bad the public transport was when she took the job. She came from abroad (internal transfer with the company). Even British people who work on other sites are amazed by how remote we are and how little public transport there is (they stopped the staff bus 2 years ago to save money - I think her manager told her that it still ran). We really do work in the middle of nowhere (surrounded by farmland).

I'm a bit worried my previous post wasn't expressed well. I'm not being xenophobic. My point is that public transport (or rather the lack of it) comes as a shock if you come from a country with good public transport (or from a more urban bit of the UK).

She clearly doesn't care that she is keeping you behind.
If it were a bus or train she was catching it wouldn't wait for her.
I would tell her to make other arrangements as from jan and that in the meantime if she isn't there by X time I the morning you will have left without her.
Please don't feel bad, your responsibilities are to your family not another grown adult.
Good luck

It's not your problem. Her transport problems are her problem.

How did it go, OP?