In article , James Looker
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Dave Arquati wrote:
Richard Adamfi wrote:

What do you think of the new advert?

Richard Adamfi

For anyone who hasn't seen it, if you have a fast connection you
can see it from he

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/press-re...ress-pn%201214
.shtml Nicely done. But I'm not convinced it will persuade
suburbanites to leave their cars at home. And I rarely see a bus lane
work as well as the one in the video - in central London your journey
is as likely to be held up by other buses and taxis as it is by cars!
Do many suburban routes have all-day bus lanes?

Buses are shocking forms of transport, dirty, getting more exspensive
all the time and total crap in outer London. I teach in S Croydon and
commute from Grove Park, near Bromley. A bus journey would tkae a ten
minute walk to the correct bus stop this end, then at least two buses
to the other end before another ten minute walk - A 25 - 30 minute
journey in my car becomes well over an hour by bus. No thanks.

Hmmm. Well, I live on the opposite side of London, and often use buses
to get to restaurants, the pub and to switch stations when one or other
line has problems.

I've never noticed them to be particularly dirty - certainly no more so
than an average minicab - and the services seem to run to time, pretty
much.

As I have a 1-5 travel card, I've already paid to use them, so the car
stays on the drive Monday to Friday, mostly. Unless I'm feeling like a
lazy git, or am moving a load (like the shopping).

In central London, congestion charging has made buses a realistic option
against a cab when I go (as I do most weeks) from Holborn Circus to
Trafalgar Sq. About five minutes slower, but £7 cheaper.

I don't think you've really used buses lately...

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