On 28/04/2017 16:42, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:25:37 on Fri, 28 Apr
2017, Someone Somewhere remarked:

Can you give me an executive summary of the 260 answers your post has
generated? Is it YES or NO?

To be fair, 250 odd of them have been about public transport in the
Cambridge area including a level of name calling and a discussion on
metallurgy.

That arose from a discussion of the second of the OP's questions (which,
incidentally, doesn't have a Yes/No answer):

"Has anyone used Uber? How does it work? What is the service like?"

It might have done but veered (or more precisely "guided" in this case)
a long way off topic (almost to St Ives) after a while.

If the question was really about Uber, would anyone be interested in my
experiences of using it for commuting for a few weeks in Riyadh?
Presumably not, but in the spirit of things here (ignoring what might be
on topic) I'll tell people anyway - very cheap, drivers have no idea how
to follow a map but eventually get there, have a habit of cancelling on
you if you clearly have a non-Arab name. Best Uber experience I've
ever had - San Francisco. Worst Uber experience I've ever had - Woking
(I tried to order one 3 days before they started service there so was
obviously disappointed although they'd turned on the app service in the
area so it looked like I could find a car). Current rating - 4.69.

Going back to the Cambridge guided busway, trying to do a pub crawl
along its length is a dreadful idea - I tried it once - most of the
stops are nowhere near the villages they serve.