"General Von Clinkerhoffen" wrote in
message ...
Arriva buses are crap, get off train, walk to bus station, look for
next bus, there are 5 that travel along my route, next one is 30
mins, give up and walk, to cap it all those crooks decided to reduce
the child discount from 50% to 25%, didn't tell anyone and left
children waiting at bus stops, I wouldn't urinate on a director of
Arriva if they were being consumed by fire.


I am not going to pretend that Arriva are perfect, but i wouldn't go
as far as to say that they are crap. Without knowing where in
Aylesbury you are, I can't comment on how frequent the buses you can
catch are.... i live on route 9 though, so have a generally good
service all day and late into the evening, even if the buses seem to
be rather unreliable of late.

On the child rates, didn't they put them back to a more reasonable
level 40%, after the outrage in the local paper.... although that was
at least a year ago now....


Matt Wheeler wrote:
"Brimstone" wrote in message
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General Von Clinkerhoffen wrote:

I pay £1648 annual season ticket from Aylesbury to Amersham, from
Stoke Mandeville it £300 cheaper, I call that expensive for a 15
mile
journey.


Assuming a 5 day week and 48 weeks per year that's less than 23
pence per
mile.



Not forgetting that the large difference in price between Aylesbury
and Stoke Mandeville is because the latter has a larger car park
and they want to encourage commuters to travel from there
instead... although obviously for commuters without cars it can be
considered a little unfair. That being said, a month or longer
season from Aylesbury gives you free travel on Arriva buses within
Aylesbury.