What is public transport like where you live ?

Non-existent. If neither of us could drive we would have to move.

We have a bus stop a short walk away and the buses are every 15 minutes to our local town bus station, every hour on Sunday, from there buses go to a few different towns and to the railway station and our local hospital. I have been using the bus more since the petrol shortage and sometimes there are only a handful of passengers on the bus.

On the south coast, buses are plentiful (every ten minutes) to nearby towns from our smaller town, with several other services joining villages up, running hourly.
Trains run along the coast regularly and into London, although like everywhere else are liable to cancellation.

There isn’t any public transport where I am. If you want to go to town you have to get a taxi, or contact the local dial a ride if you are eligible. I drive, but it is a major issue for younger people and the elderly who don’t.

Our local system is very good, with buses going from 0730 to 22:00 daily, ending 1830 on Sat, and no buses Sunday.

However, we have no buses leaving town to go elsewhere. None at all! Our next nearest town is 140 km away. You can take a train that runs 3 days a week. Unfortunately it doesn't return on the same days, so essentially you would have to leave on a THU and return on a SAT. Not very convenient at all. Our country/province should invest more in public transit.

We have bus stops five mins walk away train station a walk through the woods takes about eight mins. I get a train usually to rugby club very rarely get a bus.

Our bus service is similar to yours NotAGran but we do get an extra journey one day a week which means that you can get to the shops and back without having to hang about in town (not much to do there!) all day.

There are a few people in the village who don't drive and we help them out with lifts to appointments etc.

Brilliant. First bus at 5.30 and last bus up is at 11.30- and then at week-ends there is a charity run bus, that leaves down in the valley at 2am, and 4am - and will take anyone home.

Every rural area could do this- get a group together, go and beg for support and money from local businesses- get a minimbus and volunteers. It's great.

It was started about 15 years ago when there was several youngsters who lost their lives to drinking and driving- but they are quite happe to take adults.

The last bus from here departed three or four years ago. Even then, it was one a day, at 6:45am and returned 6pm. No buses on Sundays.

The closest bus to here is four miles away.

North Devon District dire at the moment, lots of buses been missed out at the last minute… and they are going on strike next Monday…

We live in a village that used to have an hourly service. East to a city and a small town, west to a large town.
The route used to be run by one company but now has two and they haven’t dovetailed their timetables it so makes the journeys much more difficult. If we want to use the bus to get to the city we have to drive to the market town and find a parking space.
Guess what, we don’t bother, we just drive the whole way.

I m happy with our transport I have a bus ever 20 minutes
that ll take me anywhere in my town there is one every 40 minutes to our nearest city and I am a 15 minute walk from the train station.
I have a free bus pass and a senior rail card for the train

Excellent where I live, regular buses running every 20 mins.
One of the reasons we chose this large village,after living in a hamlet.Also nice to have clubs, church, pub and shops within an easy walk.

Well living in London suburbs transport buses and tube are excellent. Sad to say rush hour near me lasts for hours.

I don’t drive, although DH does, but I like to be independent. So when we moved from London we moved to a small town that had frequent buses, a train station within walking distance and local shops, library and theatre.
We did look at pretty villages but I would have felt trapped, particularly if I wanted to go anywhere at night.
We went to London on the train today, surprisingly quiet still. No rush hour to speak of.

Has it got worse since you lived there?
We are well off (so I am told ) for public transport but it still doesn't attract enough people to encourage less car use.
The roads are mobbed - more so since the pandemic. Where is everyone going? I ask myself.

I write to the bus companies and to my local councillors to press for better PT. We have a climate emergency and you'd think it would be a cheap and simple solution to lay on better transport links.

I looked into getting a 2nd hand electric car and they start at around £8k. I can't afford that.