More ridiculous snobbery - housing estate 'too good' for bus route

[whatwouldyoudothen]

My Dad told me about this and I thought I'd add it here as it's similar to the other in the news thread atm.

Residents are protesting against a new bus route because it "runs through residential streets".

Because most bus routes just serve areas where people don't live?

Well I sympathise a bit as when I moved into this flat and first heard the buses start up at 5am I thought I'd made the biggest mistake of my life!

You get used to it though, and surely being on a regular bus route into the town centre is a good thing?

The undertone to me is that the buses lower the tone and nobody who lives on an 'exclusive' estate should need to get on a bus.

Can't believe the stuff about baseball bats

I blame Thatcher

she's the fucker who said that anyone getting on a bus as an adult was a loser

twats.

(And you are right, laurie. )

I think they've got ideas about their (bus) station.

Sorry! But they live on a bleeding housing estate in Milton Keynes - this is not Belgrave Square or Chatsworth, FFS. Ill-mannered, jumped up, social climbing Hyacinth Bucket wannabes.

I love the fact that they waited for the bus to stop as people wanted to get on it - so as they could object to the bus - their point being that people do not want to get on it

Own Goal?

I'd be pretty pissed off if a formerly quiet street became noisy because of a bus service.

If the buses were electric then they wouldn't be noisy (disappears into green cloud cuckoo land)

ib, possiblybut I doubt that would be enough

I think the part where it said an "exclusive" estate made it sound like snobbery. In reality, it is not always practical for big busses to go into estates where the roads were built for not much traffic.

I live on an estate of a few hundred houses and buses drive by the main road, but not actually onto the estate. I think that actually the estate itself - the roads are a bit small for buses and lots of children play out the front (on land belonging to council) and in the shared drives etc. The little roads are really bendy, there are thin pieces which are single lane and I don't think it would be particularly safe for a big bus to go down here. If the roads are narrow, busses can cause accidents - we have a road nearby and this particular house keeps having it's porch knocked down because vechicles have accidents due to the narrowness of the roads. I think if residents need busses, there should be smaller minibusses to stop in places like that - our busses have very few people on them, but obviously those few people want and need the busses. A minbus would be more than fine for them.

[please don't flame me - I'm not a snob!! - some of my neigbours are though ]

"The majority of us, if not all, therefore already have our own cars and have no need to utilise the bus service."

That says it all. Let's force everyone to have cars becasue there's no public transport and then say there's no public transport because we don't need it...

What a bunch of utter nobs. I hope petrol prices double just to irritate them.

Crokky, the piece said that the buses were actually planned in before the estate was built, I would expect that was a planning permission thing as it usually is and that, therefore, the roads must have been built to expect that.

I also suspect that half of their congestion issue is to do with the houses all having more than one car - leading to unplanned on street parking.

KingCanute - I must have missed that bit

How will their servants come to work if there's no bus service?

They need to rethink this one.

I do school run and go to work each day by bus! It is fab. Especially as work pay 75% of my bus pass . Really there should be MORE buses and less cars.

I was totally shocked when I travelled back to London and saw how much a tube ticket cost! Here an hours worth of travel on the very linked pub transport system costs you 1 euro 60 cents if you buy a ticket in advance.

Snobbery about public transport is completley unreasonable in my ho. There should be so much more of it in the UK!!!

Oh they're not posh enough to have servants.

They sound utterly vulgar and philistine.

I bet they're the sort of people who drive their kids to school and park on the zig zags/ yellow lines when it would take them 10 minutes to walk.

Wankers.

You are absolutely right though Crokky, buses where buses were never meant to go is a real problem! There is a street near us with a 90% bend, it is impossible for a bus to get round it without going across the whole road and the road each side of the bend is so narrown that anyone coming up to the corner has to reverse up the road to get out of the way (often back round the bend) the bend is blind of coure - just to help matters!

The buses go round every 10 minutes from 6am to 12.15pm 7 days a week. The road was never made for it and the problem is getting worse ad worse as there are more and more cars parking and so on.

But to be fair, the road was never designed for all the cars either.

It was designed first for horses and a few carriages and then later for a much lower level of motorised traffic than it now has to cope with.

Buses are part of the solution to that, not the problem.

Porto, my children walk to school, and I go to work on the train! (germany)
My ticket costs about 10 pounds, for a RETURN journey of 50 km both ways.

The lack of public transport, and the high cost where it's available, is one big factor in not wanting to go back to the UK.

No, the road I am talking about (not the one in the op) is old but certainly not that old
I don't think buses are the solution or the problem as such, they are both and neither depending on where exactly you are talking about!

For instance I remember reading about a street in the centre of a town that is actually, slowly, falling in because of all the buses now running down it. The idea was to clear congestion by running buses but the houses cannot cope with the weight or vibrations of them and are gradually falling ito the road - not visably yet of course but measurably, which is a little scary!

Gosh, an 'exclusive' estate where the yobs residents think nothing of threatening a bus driver with baseball bats
What a delightful bunch. [shudder]

LOL yes and they've got the cheek to think "there goes the neighbourhood" when they see a bus!