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Jesus, here's me paying ?7.10 ($9.28) for a return ticket to get to where I need to go, and ?84.50 ($110.44) for a 4-week ticket...and you're talking about ?1.53 per ticket? What a nice world you guys must live in. xD
 
Well, the trains have been fucked for about 18 months now, with all the strike action going on, and the buses are rarely on-time, so I'd say so. Sometimes - a lot of the time, actually - I wish I could leave this miserable cesspool of a country.

Although the weather is nice, if nothing else.
 
I've actually never taken the train before, but that's because I've never really needed to commute so far enough as to travel to a different county for whatever I needed.
 
I used to get the train into College and University every day, and I got sick of it pretty quickly. The new train carriages feel unsafe, I was always on the wrong side of the gates so I needed to leave early to avoid getting stuck at them and watching my train pass by without me, and in the mornings it's like being packed into a tin of sardines...noisy, teenage sardines.
 
Meyneth said:
Jesus, here's me paying ?7.10 ($9.28) for a return ticket to get to where I need to go, and ?84.50 ($110.44) for a 4-week ticket...and you're talking about ?1.53 per ticket? What a nice world you guys must live in. xD
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Holy that's insane! Way overpriced. In the city the bus is like $1.85 for adults
 
The sad thing about it is that I'm not even going that far - into town, which is about 30 minutes away.

Discount doesn't bring the prices down by much, either. Will still cost me a little over $100 for a 4-week ticket. But then, I'd rather for public transport than healthcare, even though I do pay a lot for healthcare because I went private with both my dentist and my therapist...
 
We don't have buses out here, that's how far out I am lol ;A;
 
Our buses suck, they're unreliable af.

Whenever I get the bus to work I always get the one before the one which would get me to work with 10-15 minutes to spare because I don't trust it to get me to work on time (or in certain cases, even arrive at all).
 
I've never taken any public transport. I live out in the woods so you have to have a car here or be able to walk or run long distances. The closest store is 4 miles away. I do a lot of running but I don't like going to that part of town. :P
 
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I've never taken any public transport. I live out in the woods so you have to have a car here or be able to walk or run long distances. The closest store is 4 miles away. I do a lot of running but I don't like going to that part of town. :P
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you have me imagining you literally living the middle of the woods with some deer and bears. u_u
 
They should have buses that come here to take us to town but u_u
 
Any time the trains are replaced with buses it's a no for me. Used to take the buses in London but I've been using the underground predominately now.
 
I have a driver's license, but I rarely drive. The public transportation network in this city is more than enough for my needs.
 
lol the public transportation system in my city is very hit or miss. you're pretty much obligated to have a car because of how spread out everything is, which is super annoying.

it's ok when it works and the buses arrive on time, it's a pain in the ass when it doesn't and the buses arrive like 30 minutes late...
 
We have an underground train that takes you to mostly anywhere that matters in the city, and bus-only lanes. It's really not much trouble with buses.

Except during winter on rush hour. But I don't use the bus, it's mostly the underground.
 
that's the thing I wish our train does in my city. :s you only take the train if you're traveling super long distances (like to another county or district or something). like, the train here only stops in super major places; everywhere else you gotta take the bus.
 
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