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M0nica Sat 13-Nov-21 16:39:37

The problem is that, with COVID, fewer people are travelling by coach and with increasing fuel and other costs, Greenline, like other bus companies are losing money on quite a number of services and continuing running them leads only to bankruptcy and all their routes stopping.

I do appreciate how difficult it is for people who have relied on it.

ixion I am another one who suffers from travel sickness and am at my worst on buses/coaches. I also have childhood memories of travelling on busses and feeling very, very queezy, although no memory of being sick. As an adult, nothing has changed and in old age it has, if anything, got worse.

ixion Fri 12-Nov-21 19:44:22

Oh no!
My parents and I used to take the Green Line from Victoria Coach Station to High Wycombe to visit my great - grandmother. It would have been the early 1950s when I was 4 or 5, I guess.

The smell?. No ventilation and the smell of diesel fumes.
The ignominy of a passenger freeing up a brown paper from her sandwiches for me to be sick in. (A skill I never mastered). Being passed up the gangway by helpful fellow travellers to reach my other parent who was sitting near the front.

I still get terribly travel sick on coaches and the smell remains with me, in one form or another. At least my mother learnt to take a change of clothing each time☹️

sf101 Fri 12-Nov-21 09:08:03

When I was a child my godmother used the Greenline bus to visit us, she caught it at Aldgate to Bishops Stortford.
We loved going to the bus stop to meet her.

Lilydrop Fri 12-Nov-21 08:14:10

I think the problem with Greenline is just that. Nobody knows they still run its only word of mouth really. Im sure if more people knew about the London Run and how much cheaper it is more people would of used it. But its too late now.

LullyDully Fri 12-Nov-21 08:09:18

I remember getting the Green line bus from one side of London to the other to get to college after a weekend at home. I didn't know they were still running. It used to be great service.

Lilydrop Fri 12-Nov-21 08:00:30

I moved to my home 20 years ago from London and until Jan, when I retired, used the Greenline coach to commute into London for work,my DH still does and has worked all through the pandemic using the coach which was scaled down because people where either shielding or working from home. The coach is nearly half the price of the train and the train station is a unreliable bus journey from our house.( coach stops out side our house). Now they are going to cancel the coach all together.
It is a total nightmare now with extra journey for DH and a lot more money. It is stopping on the 4th of Dec yes extra fares just before Christmas. I just feel really upset for my DH.