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

[raythechay]

apart from your home

Tesco for me

The airport.

Not that I need it all that often, but it's a pain when I do need it.

Into the middle of Oxford without having to get off and walk for ten minutes to the other side of the railway bridge to get back on the bus to reach the centre. They said it was for six months, now extended to another year. Everyone I know believes that it will never be open, because the City Council would prefer everyone to stay within fifteen minutes of their home ( except them, of course, they can travel fromWitney and Charlbury to their very important ‘meetings’ in the centre of Oxford. )

A-B without going through the alphabet in discomfort

It's cheap atm. Just £2!

anywhere at all really
with 3 busses per DAY on 5 days of the week (mon - Fri) my bus service is worse than useless. It gets me to the bus station

If I walk for 25 mins down (up on the way home) a steep hill I can get to the more regular bus which gets me to the bus station. It also gets me to a park and goes past 2 Co Ops and a post office and pharmacy.

It would be amazing to be able to get to school / college / hospital / Drs / dentist a supermarket (not bothered about which super market, any is better than none!)

Bit of luck I drive!!!!

It would be nice if they came accordingly to the schedule which is every 15 minutes, not once in an hour during peak hours. And then they complain people prefer cars… Buses in my area are so unreliable.

Definitely Barbados.

We only have one bus a day and they've just axed our Saturday service so just Mon-Fri and they've shortened the length of time in the nearest town.
Desperately looking for work at the moment so I would like more buses to anywhere with work. There's only so far I can cycle back and forth and winter cometh.
Two friends of mine lost their jobs because of the cuts to services so fuck you Drakeford.

Just wanted to add here: if you are in West Yorkshire, they are literally in the process of making major changes by bringing the buses under local public control (similar to the legal setup in London) where the LA are in charge of how it runs. Opportunity for changing the way the bus services operate, routes and so on. If you live here and want to have some say in the way your buses are run, fill in the online form here!
http://www.yourvoice.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/busreform

Some background on the new legal changes her: https://trib.al/2h7fgPW

To my daughter's house. She only lives about 4 miles from me,but there's no direct bus route. I have to get one bus into my local town,then change on to another bus from there. The whole journey can take take 50 minutes on a good day,or 1.5 hours on a not so good day. If there was a direct bus,it would probably take about 25 minutes.

Local hospitals (one of which I work in).The lack of public transport links to any of the hospitals is a disgrace. The nearest railway stations are a 30 minute walk away, whichever hospital you're trying to get to, the buses run every 30 minutes and you almost always have to change at interchange, and the new Bee malarkey hasn't yet improved things. I miss living on a Metro line.

My nearest hospital, where I work.
15 min drive or 1hr20 on 3 buses. There's also the option of walk 1.5miles, train (no parking at station), 1 bus but that only cuts 5min off the journey (if you walk fast!)
Cycling is on unlit hilly A roads with poor visibility.
It's very frustrating.

There's no bus at all to DDs primary school (2 miles away and our closest school). It's not possible to do the school run and be at work on time via public transport. Despite what the school keeps asking parents to do.

And we're only 5 miles outside a massive city, in what could realistically be described as the suburbs! We get the train into the city at weekends as the 1.5 mile walk is fine. I don't understand why they make it so hard / not joined up to access hospitals.

To town or nursery in a reasonable time and price.
If I took bus it would be a 30 min walk downhill (steep uphill walk back- my toddler can’t walk it yet). Then actual bus I think is only hourly 6-9am, and 3-6pm. So a 6hr gap in between and nothing evenings, sat afternoon or Sunday at all.

It’s €7.80 to get the bus into next town. This journey would take approximately 30 min walk, 30 min bus, 20 min walk (1hr20), it’s about 12min car drive.

I can get the bus most places I want to go - town, the station, gym, work, shops. My only issue is the nearest bus stop is ten mins walk from my house down/up a massive hill. I have an injured foot at the moment which means I just can't do the walk so having to get taxis. If the bus stop was nearer it would be fine.

The hospitals, where I live in North Manchester you get referred to 3 hospitals and there isn't a direct bus to any of them. Lots of routes are once an hour since lockdown and making connections is tricky.

I wanted to join a gym and was pleased the bus goes there but its once a hour and the timing would leave me 40 mins to kill before class starts.

I dont know why there is a gif in my post!

I can get to most places. I live in the town centre so things like the gym, supermarkets, doctor, train station etc are in walking distance. The buses go to the city centre, the hospital and the airport.

There is a very nice large park that I wish the bus went to, there did used to be a service that stopped there but it was scrapped 5 years ago.

Anywhere with a service that ran more than 1-2 hourly and past 6pm! And I live near the bus station in a medium size town in the SE.

For quite a while I lived in a very large town where you never had to wait more than 20minutes for a bus. And it made hopping between buses to get somewhere easy.

That and there are no bus routes to the local Leisure Center at all

We only have one bus that's every 2 hours. Goes to 2 local towns, not to the nearest city and stops at 6pm.
So more frequency and a city stop (both nearest cities are 10 miles away)

I'd like a bus.

I wish I had a bus stop within a reasonable walking distance, even though I live smack bang in the middle of a housing estate they closed my nearest stop.

I wish they brought back the circular route that went to the town centre and back around all the different housing estates on the edges of the town. Now it's easier for me to ride 45 minutes to the next town than it is to shop at my local shopping centre.

And then the council wonders why the high street is dying, they do all these initiatives to make it more attractive but they forget that the vast majority of us can't actually get there. It's a pedestrianised town centre as well and very difficult to park, so when the bus companies cut services that was the nail in the coffin.