What do you wish you could get to via your local bus route?

[raythechay]

apart from your home

Tesco for me

Anywhere closer than a 25 min walk home would be nice.
School, the post office and Tesco are only a 10 min walk.

The local hospital, and I live in a major city! To get to it on the bus I’d have to take a bus to the city centre then a bus out to the hospital. It’s only a 15 minute drive away - which is by I always drive to it when I need to go!

Anywhere, no bus route in the village.

Work, the train station, the nearest city. The city is doable but takes at least an hour. For the other two the public transport routes are again about an hour and half of that is walking.

The bus routes here are roughly ‘spikes’ into the town centre, and it’s a happy coincidence if there’s anywhere else useful on your route. In my case that’s the hospital, plus I also live on a route that takes you out to a nearby town.

In my parents town and my mother in law's town (two different towns) I'd just like the buses to run past 7pm and run all days including Sundays.

The college in the next town. It’s a 15-minute drive from here, but takes over 1.5 hours currently on public transport, as you have to take a long combination of walking, trains, and buses. It’s a brilliant college, and many of the young people in our town would really benefit from being able to attend it.

Same here @WhatWhateverMate . But my DD went to a Northern university town and complained endlessly for all 3 years that she had to wait for more than 2 minutes for a bus 🤣

Anywhere - we don't have a bus route!

Live in a city so I can get anywhere - supermarkets, IKEA, swimming pool, the airport, the beach. Where my parents live you can barely even get into town on the bus.

I'd just like the fares to be reasonable... I think the routes are OK but I've never actually been on a bus here, and we've lived in the area for nearly 10yrs. The prices are just extortionate, and not just for the adults. So we walk most places and drive if it's further away.

Admittedly I'm spoiled because I grew up in a London Borough so I'm used to buses/trams and Oyster card prices. When we go back to visit family we take public transport pretty much everywhere. The DC associate going on the bus with staying at DM's

As a pp has said, it’s not a question of where the buses go; it’s that they are so expensive!

There’s a £2 fare cap until December 2024 on nearly all routes. Lots of areas run “take the kids for free” initiatives. If people use these then they’re more likely to be continued. Yes it’s scandalous that buses inside London are so much cheaper than the rest of the country but I know plenty of people who complain the bus is too expensive then drop £7 on parking.

Places that are about ten minutes' away by car but are either not served at all or require about three to five buses that take around 30-45 minutes each and probably a precarious crossing of a major arterial road and a significant walk on foot via a nervewrackingly narrow footpath that disappears at the most dangerous points. The services are brilliant if you want to go via the town centre (and the accompanying new one way system and twin lane roads reduced to single carriageway due to bollards for Uber Eats, Deliveroo and the decisions of a senior council bloke who likes to go cycling at the weekend - but never cycles those stretches because he'd never do it for work, instead driving his large 4x4 somewhere miles away to practise his outing hobby). But if you want to get anywhere that isn't in a straight line to a tiny number of defined spots, it's an utter pig to get around without a car preferably electric because of the ULEZ.

I have two excellent 24 hour bus routes that stop at the end of my road that go all the way in to central London.

In a bit of a "my diamond shoes are too tight" complaint I wish the bus route that stops a couple of stops further down the road still went directly in to the City and on to Kings X rather than stopping south of the river as it does now.

I would also like more lateral routes covering the suburbs as there are a few places that are only 4 or so miles away as the crow flies, but due to the way train lines work I often have to take 2/3 trains to get there.

The hospital. None of the buses in our village or the next one go there.

To get to my hospital now that the authority has modernised the system and moved teams to a centralised location that is not the nearest one.
But more importantly to feel safe not spat on or have people falling on me or abusing me verbally.

A couple of people have mentioned the gym, why not run/cycle there and back?

Yep would like more regular bus service. We live semi rurally and used to have a 30 minute bus service. That got taken off when Arriva decided they didn't want to divert off the main road to come to our village anymore. Bit too far to the main road to walk and no pavement in parts so not safe. Replaced with a Monday to Friday 2 hourly service running between 8-6. Just been extended to run on a Saturday. Luckily recently the route was changed so stop right outside my work. Previously I'd have a 15 minute walk after getting off in town or catch another bus so that is a really positive change. But yeah a two hourly bus service is better than no service but is shit shit especially when the government are trying to encourage people to ditch their cars. Not going to happen unless they improve the transport system. I don't drive so would be fucked if they took it away completely.

Buses are currently £2per journey until the 31st and then £2.50 from 1st November not too expensive

The nearest neighbouring town would be good. It's about a 15 minute drive away but there are no direct buses at all.

Anywhere at all after 17:45

Reinstate evening services!

Bath Royal United Hospital. Its either a train plus bus ride or 2 bus journeys. I can get to Southmead Hospital in Bristol via one bus journey. I live midway between the two cities.

I wish that mine didn't stop at 5pm and ran on Sundays. I would also like it to go to Tesco's and the local nature reserve (which is currently inaccessible if you can't drive/have all day to walk there).

It is if you are 2 buses away from anywhere you want to get to and both buses are by different companies so you can't get any kind of discount. 🫣