“Dobbiamo rendere il pendolarismo sostenibile l’opzione più semplice”: le preoccupazioni perché il pendolarismo in autobus diminuisce del 19%
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4522208/sustainable-commuting-easiest-option-concerns-commuting-bus-falls-19-cent
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Make buses less awful and more people will use them
I stopped taking busses because they’re not reliable and they are not worth the tickets prices, honestly, but like there must be an equation where you keep ticket prices low and service consistent that you get enough customers to break even or sth. I honestly don’t understand how bus business works, and it’s not an ideal world.
Maybe also now that you can order everything at home online may also mean people don’t take busses. Idk.
I really really like public transportation.
I take bike tbh, but it bus tickets were cheaper, I’d take busses more often
In East Sussex, bus times are not synchronized with trains. Too many buses wandering around endless estates, no quick options to support commuters. There is a need for a limited number of peak time express type buses linking major towns.
I’m hardly surprised, with some exceptions e.g. London, you’d have to be insane to actively want to commute by bus for any reason other than cost saving. My old commute was a 9 minute drive but a 50 minute bus journey every 30 minutes that just didn’t quite work with when I left so in reality it was a 20 minute wait + 50 minutes… That’s even if it turned up, which was hardly that abnormal.
Anyone has ever had to rely on buses in Inverness?
You’d think they would run absolutely stellar in a relatively small town like Inverness.
But no.
They are beyond shite. Beyond unreliable.
Need to get to the airport? Absolutely do not rely on buses, take a taxi. Trust me, you’d rather pay 25 quid than be late for a flight because the bus wouldn’t give a flying fuck to run its scheduled route let alone be on time.
My local buses have had their schedules cut and routes extended so a 10 minute car journey takes 40+ minutes by bus.
One bus used to run until 11:30pm and it now stops at 6:30pm. It also used to run 7 days a week and now it doesn’t run on Sunday at all.
Instead of having lots of buses doing small loops through select estates they’ve merged them all together so now you have one bus covering everything which is why it takes so long.
Make the service better or significantly cheaper if it’s gonna be crap, can’t believe it would cost me nearly £6 to get to town when it would be a ~10 minute drive without traffic.
Plus since I started driving I no longer get harassed by strangers, for many women a car is not just more convenient but it’s that reassurance and safety. I have so many stories from my public transport days of being followed, touched, harassed, frightened, intimidated and just generally felt uncomfortable. Plus I know whose arses have been on my car seats, the people I drove about are clean so I don’t have to be concerned about that.
Cheaper, faster, more convenient.
All public transport has to be atleast 1 of those 3 things to entice commuters. Ideally 2.
In a lot of places, it’s neither provided you can afford the upfront cost of a used car.
Could this also be related to the availability of electric bikes?
Purely anecdotal but I feel like I see many more bikes these days.
“Just move to the Netherlands, bro! Simples!😎” – noted YouTuber and urbanist refugee
Where i live it has become stupidly expensive to go by bus. My sons 30 day pass for a single route to work is now £115, up from £75 last year. I use a Honda PCX125 scooter, pay about the same as my son all in and travel about five times the distance, have no delays and can go where i want, when i want. Public transport needs to be cheaper, demand is falling because it is too expensive.
To get to work tomorrow by bus for 8am, I’d have to leave my house at 21:00 tonight take 3 & half hours worth of busses ……
Unless you live somewhere with exceptional bus services they generally aren’t reliable for commuting.
And even in those places you still get off days. (not to mention generally night services and sundays are appalling in this country.)
If I want to travel to the city (7 miles away) that’s nearly 2 hours.
If I am lucky and travelling at peak times there are 2 buses an hour.
Going to the nearest town on a Sunday? There is one bus every two hours
To take me and my two kids about 3 miles into town it costs £10, it’s cheaper to get an uber genuinely.