Public Transport .

Our bus companies are threatening to cut services as they reckon some routes arnt viable . With fuel prices the way they are if they cut their ticket prices and made it worthwhile for motorists to dump the car then these services would be viable . I caught a bus into our town centre the other day which is maybe a mile and a half 2 at a stretch but I doubt it and it cost nearly 5 pound return . If you had a family can you imagine . Mum dad and 2 kids thats nearly 20 pound to do less than 2 miles and they wonder why their buses arnt viable . It doesnt take an idiot to work out lower ticket prices , more passengers will add up to more money in the long run . High ticket prices are just company greed .

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Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

If the routes don’t generate enough revenue, and they can’t afford to lower the tickets under current salary demand and oil prices, this is what happens.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Ceinwyn I'm afraid you're right, though it's been happening for years. It all becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as more people are forced to use their cars instead so the bus companies have to try to compensate by cutting services and raising fares, so deterring more passengers....

They've also been hit hard by county councils losing subsidies from "government". Well, no, it's from everyone's taxes actually, not the government; but the councils and their own tax-payers can't afford to make up for it.

A friend who lives in a rural village once told me "it's no place to grow old" - just one bus a week, a farm-shop but no others, no post-office etc.; the nearest town several miles away.