Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was CJG Now Thankfully Living In The
North ), in message
who said:
For a long story not worth going into I am currently trying to prove
for a client the benefits of using a private car/taxi over public
transport. I am intrested in anyone who lives in London (or any other
major city/Town in the UK or rest of the world) who has access to good
public transport such as buses, trams, trains, underground, other LTR
but still drives to their place of work. Any views, opionions outright
rants agasint public transport inculding the obvious overcrowding,
dirty trains, expense would be appericated.
Unfortunely spamming and a general distrust agasint anyone asking for
personal details on the internet stops me for being e-mailed directly.
So just post here. Although if you really are anti-public transport I
would like to hear from you and will give you an accessible e-mail
address.


I use public transport, but the practicalities thereof are still
fundamentally flawed.

If you're five minutes late setting out in your car, you're five minutes
late, but if you're five minutes late catching a train, you can miss
connections, which in turn might mean you miss other connections, and your
journey schedule can be ****ed completely.

Public transport only goes from A to B, which is great if you start your
journey very close to a station and your destination is also very close to a
station on the same route. In reality, most of us want to go from one very
specific place to another, which is only possible with private transport, as
we're going from and to different places to each other.

There is no solution - no amount of improvements to services or
infrastructure will address the problem that public transport networks do
not cater adequately for individual composite journeys, and until technology
moves on to the next level - e.g. teleportation, personal flight etc. - the
car is very much here to stay.

BTN