To ask how long it been since you've used public transport?

[BoysofMelody]

After a thread on here over change from bus fares got very heated, a couple of people said they'd not used buses (and possibly other forms of public transport) for over 10 years.

I find it fairly incredible that you can go so long without going on a bus or use other forms - okay I get that it may be months if you commute by car/bike or walk, but surely most people will make an occasional trip by bus or train across the course of a year for a night out or on a day trip or whatever?

Megabus you cannot beat the small price for long distance travel

Very rural. Hourly buses, two hourly on a Sunday.
I bus it every day to work/gym/meeting friends.

Hop on, hop off bus tours are a good way to visit various cities. The most recent, the guide played the guitar and we sang songs

Hovercraft!

I haven't used public transport since going to London on the train to see blur - probably 8 years ago.

My 2 youngest children have never been on public transport, and my dd age 13 hasn't for 10 years so wouldn't remember.

I haven't taken a bus in years and years and probably only a few times in my life. I take the train somewhere nearly everyday though.

I've only used a bus once this year and I'm a non-driver.

I would have hated being a teenager living somewhere I couldn't get public transport and having to rely on my parents for lifts, I'd have had to be honest about where I was going!

Forget to say that the last time I was on a train it was the Rocky Mountaineer in the Canadian Rockies

About an hour and a half ago. I live and work in London though, so unless I'm cycling, barely a day goes past without me getting some form of public transport. It's great, I'd go mad if I ever moved back to the sticks and had to drive everywhere.

Whilst I always used tubes/buses/trains when living in London, the quality of the services in suburban Manchester is so poor, I now only get the tram on my commute. All other journeys are by car. A £1.50 bus fare in London is over £3.50 in Manchester.

I think only 53 MPs (there or thereabouts) claimed for bus fares on expenses last year and majority were for under £10 for the year. I'm sure if they used them more frequently and outside of the capital, or legislators might realise how dreadful our public transport system is.

Infrequently.

I'm in a suburb with a fairly decent bus route if you want to go anywhere as long as it's the city centre, which I don't that often. I will occasionally use it for fun if there's no time pressure, and the DCs enjoy the experience of doing it.

I'll park and ride on the tram system of the neighbouring city, that's once or twice a year.

The train works for larger city centres further afield.

Most of my journeys are either local enough to walk or to other parts of the city which would take at least an hour to connect compared to 15-20 mins by car.

Friday.

I rely on public transport. It's not as bad as people make public transport to be

July in London. That was when I first experienced the bus does not take money phenomenon. It was late night, we were tired and it was 50/50 whether the Oyster card had enough money on it. Thankfully it did.

Can anyone tell me how that works though as it didn't want me to scan it again on exit? Having muddled Oyster cards before if you don't get the right one on exiting a tube station it charges you a fortune. Are all bus journeys just one price? We left London next morning so have no idea what the Oyster cards are going to read as next time.

I'm on the London overground as I type. I prefer public transport. Parking outside my work is a fortune and couldnt face the a406 daily.

I do use the car to go to the gym and dcs activities

I'm sitting on it. 4 buses per day here.

I'll always use public transport where possible. I can switch off, people watch, work, write, read, drink prosecco (my Saturday night treat on the train!) none of which I can do driving. DH commutes by train.

Bus lanes mean buses are usually faster at peak times in cities and trains avoid congestion. I do wish that buses were easier to understand. I never know which operators are exact fare, which gives change, which does cheaper day tickets than return fares.

Generally, there are far fewer disruptions to public transport than people tend to think and I'd like to see a comprehensive, integrated public transport policy that got was cost effective, easy to use, and got more cars off the road.

My local bus service has two bus companies doing the route, so we have 8 buses a hour each way. I don't live far from the main road so that's another 17 bus services a hour.

I used the tube around six months ago.

Right now every weekday, commuting using at least 2, sometimes 3, modes of public transport.

I'm in my late 30s and it would be very unusual where I grew up to have more than one car, as paying for the upkeep of one car was beyond a lot of people. Of there was a car it would inevitably be taken by the husband to work. A lot of women mum's age (mid-60s) I know can't drive for this reason.

I'm in my late 40s and my parents had two cars when I was growing up. One for each of them to get to work. My mum is in her mid 70s.

At the beginning of this month. I was away in Edinburgh, and it is much more sensible imo to use public transport there than to take my car down. The bus service there is fantastic.

I used the train on Sunday, escorting my son from our home in the Midlands, back to his specialist college in Somerset. Then I catch another train back home again. I'm glad I had my kindle with me.

I use the bus regularly too.

I don't think I've been on a bus for about 15 years, I went on trains twice last summer for boost weekends away, planes I went abroad earlier this year and flew internally last year.

This morning - I commute into London four days a week. I usually cycle to the station, but get the bus when it's raining hard (last about two weeks ago).

I do have a car but there's no way I'd ever drive into London. There's nowhere to park at my office and it would be a hideous journey.