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.

Matt Wheeler wrote:
"Brimstone" wrote in message
...

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.

"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
...

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.

"Matt Wheeler" wrote in message
...

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.

Ditto! Although I normally walk in to town (or to Stoke Mandeville, as it
only takes about 10 mins longer than Aylesbury station).

No they didn't put them back, or if they did their PR is as awful as
their services and they didn't tell anyone, I live along the Tring Road,
and I just don't bother to use them, it's pointless I can walk it
quicker and more reliably.

Londoners get a fantastic service, from the Bus, the tube, river bus,DLR
etc etc, young offenders in the capital will be getting Free bus
travel,while out in the sticks soon we will have all the people but none
of the services needed to cope.

Matt Wheeler wrote:
"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
...


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.

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:46:43 GMT, General Von Clinkerhoffen
wrote:

No they didn't put them back, or if they did their PR is as awful as
their services and they didn't tell anyone, I live along the Tring Road,
and I just don't bother to use them, it's pointless I can walk it
quicker and more reliably.

Londoners get a fantastic service, from the Bus, the tube, river bus,DLR
etc etc, young offenders in the capital will be getting Free bus
travel,while out in the sticks soon we will have all the people but none
of the services needed to cope.

Ahem.

Despite your beliefs, not all under 18s are "young offenders".

Rob.
--
rob at robertwoolley dot co dot uk