Do you use buses?

Three months to go until my bus pass! I am worried it will make me lazy when I can get a bus into town for free, will I feel motivated to do the 20 minute walk?
(I have a car as well, but I don't use it if there is a bus or I can walk)

Yes occasionally when we’re at home. When we meet up with friends in different places we all use the bus, it saves the problem of who drives, where to park and the cost of parking. Can’t use it for work as it’s a very early start, two buses and a half mile walk with a 20 minute wait between the buses. OK in the summer but not fun in the pouring rain.

I have a car but use the buses more. I have arthritis and find the walk to the bus stop is good for me. I have a bus service that is excellent, every ten minutes and free with my pass and do not then have the worry of finding a space to park in. I also find the bus is sociable. I usually know someone or hold a conversation with someone on the bus which passes the time nicely.

I have to use the buses daily for work..I have to get my first bus at 4.40 am and luckily I can rely on it but as the day goes on the service gets worse and they start missing buses out or their really late so by the time I'm going home its potluck that I get the bus I need to get to the bus stop I need to get my second bus! I hate it so much but no other alternative!

I wish I could use buses, but I can't. Just the thought of being cooped up inside a shaking, rattling and rolling tin can with a load of strangers gives me the horrors. Give me a train any day where you can get up and walk about if necessary.

The only bus I use regularly is the park and ride. Local bus services are down to 1 an hour from about 6.30 am to 6.30 pm, none at the weekend. There is also one that goes to the hospital via a roundabout route but only 4 per weekday, so appointments need to coincide to make it viable. We are confined to barracks at the weekend unless we own cars.

I rarely use buses. They only run every half hour, or so. The standard bus goes all round the villages and takes ages to get to our local town or city, and the express bus stop is quite a long walk away.

The car is definitely much handier!

I live in a small town 17 miles from Oxford. We have an excellent bus service, which I use regularly. My bus pass saves me a fortune. The villages surrounding my home are not so fortunate as bus services were cut several years ago. I understand there is a Community bus, but this has to be booked in advance.

we use buses all the time as my husband had to give up driving due to macular degeneration

In Cumbria I use buses, they run every half hour but finish at 6pm, which is a nuisance if you dont have a car,there are no buses on Sundays either.
It is a rural bus service they are often late but you do have to be at the stop in time, in case they are on time.The drivers are friendly, polite and helpful.The other passengers, mainly retired people, are also frienldy and chatty I love using the bus and have become friends with fellow passsengers.We need to use the bus service or there wont be one for much longer.

As I travel for free on buses I'm a regular user. Although sometimes it does make me lazier,

Im a people watcher and use the bus regular. I like the character of the bus community and u can learn a lot from conversations of your area. Whats going on they are in the know

we are lucky we are supposed to have a 10 minute service during the day but often we get 3 buses together, what with road works and railway crossings, but in the evening not so good I can get to the nearby town but not back again no good if you want to go to the Theatre or Cinema, the village just north only gets one bus an hour, none in the evening, Sundays or bank holidays,

We are so very rural where we are in the fens so don't have a bus service at all. Nearest bus stop is 2 miles away so we use the car when we need to go anywhere.

Living in south London we are penalised every which way if we try to drive - high parking. Badges, congestion charges, long traffic queues so buses and tubes and trains it is - the buses however are crowded and I do get sick of very loud speaking people having their mobile phone conversations and not giving a thought to the fact that the person three seats away doesn’t want to hear them

I have a great bus service ....one every 12 minutes...although occasionally they one won't turn up , but we all know this so we always give ourselves a 2-bus space for Hospital apps. it stops right outside . Use at least 12 buses a week taking and fetching kids to school. Rest of time I walk or bike...for long journeys I use the train ...which I also get free , as husband used to drive the them for a living ...small compensation for all that shift work and overtime resulting in binned dinners!!

I am a regular bus user, and trains. Where I live now we have buses every 20 mins, and another bus service from a different stop every 20 mins. The last bus is 11ish pm. Where I used to live we had buses every 40 minutes that stopped running at 8pm every evening.
I have had some interesting conversations waiting for the bus and find it a sociable experience. I'm glad I don't have to park. The bus pass is wonderful - not only locally but I use it to travel across London. I hope they don't take it away.
I also have a senior rail card that pays for itself very quickly.

.... used to live in London ....absolutely NO reason anyone should drive there . Massive range of all kinds of transport , who’d bother!

When little one flew the nest, I downsized. I looked for a new job in a new area. Found a job, then had to find somewhere to live. My house hunting criteria were near shops, near train station, near bus routes - so I live in a town centre. Now I'm retired, I'm grateful to the retirees who taught me.

I live in a Sussex village of around 10,000 people & we only have one bus an hour between towns, daytimes, & none evenings, Sundays or Bank Holidays. I use these buses at least twice a day & would love a more frequent service, as would lots of us regular passengers. It's a long route for the drivers & often late, sometimes doesn't turn up at all. I love my free OAP bus pass & dread having to pay fares.

...oh , and we have one bus an hour on Sundays ...so you only have to plan ahead to make it work.

We have a reasonable service every half hour but I tend to use the train at the moment which is only 10 minutes walk away. We also have our own cars now but we're looking to move and apart from health services a good transport service will be a deciding factor when we can no longer drive safely. We're up in Scotland a fair bit and love Lothian buses operating in Edinburgh . Recently I was also in Manchester and travelled on their free electric buses around the city!

I enjoy a bus ride, and a friend and I went to London on the bus, then took various other buses. It was a lovely feeling of freedom - no hunting for parking places and a good view from the top deck.

As previous posters have said living in west Midlands can't complain about buses great service and the pass can be used on train and metro meaning people in Wolverhampton could get to Coventry completely free of charge with their pass. Myself and DH use the bus at least twice a week more in the nice weather when we hop on and of buses take ourselves out for day.

Haven't been on a bus for as long as I remember. If I can't drive I don't go unless going up to London on train.
I don't even lke bring driven by someone else either.