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good start to the weekend
« on: 16 April 2010, 14:12:14 »

1. Arrived at station where the private parking bays (including mine ) are clearly known and marked - a muppet is chancing it to leave his car to go and buy something - so he got the sharp end.
2. Train is cancelled
3. On platform there are 8  teenagers being noisy and deliberately shouting annoying comments - everyone hides behind their papers - so sorted that out as well as I am in the mood. By-standers say thank you to me - the lariest of the kids says "it would be the biggest who had a go at us"
4. On train - "lady" with both feet on seats - no-one says a thing - except me - so I have go at her. Report it to station staff who look at me blankly.
5. By Blackberry I file additional objections to Council plans to include local farmland in house building proposals - ring Council and give them a blast.


And now off to Cornwall!!
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #1 on: 16 April 2010, 14:14:57 »

Simple answer - avoid trains and public tranport. In fact, they should all be banned.
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #2 on: 16 April 2010, 14:17:35 »

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Simple answer - avoid trains and public tranport. In fact, they should all be banned.


buses are the worse. id rather walk if only a couple of miles. and it makes you feel good  :)
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #3 on: 16 April 2010, 14:17:58 »

indeed, car all the way  :y
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #4 on: 16 April 2010, 14:23:44 »

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buses are the worse. id rather walk if only a couple of miles. and it makes you feel good  :)
Dunno, barely been invented around these parts.


I know the council have to offer a subsidised service, so then send a bus from Bicester at 10am Tuesday morning, winds around the villages, arrives at Brackley at 11am, turns striaght around, winds through villages, back in Bicester for midday. Next bus, next Tuesday leaving Bicester at 10am.  WHAT A WASTE OF MY TAXES just to put a tick in their stupid boxes.

Ban all buses, they serve no purpose, and get in the way.
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #5 on: 16 April 2010, 14:23:46 »

Good on yer, mate.

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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #6 on: 16 April 2010, 14:28:44 »

if you miss the bus here, the next one is not until next week!
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #7 on: 16 April 2010, 14:30:48 »

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Ban all buses, they serve no purpose, and get in the way.
Good God No ! - how else do i get to the pub and back home for free
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #8 on: 16 April 2010, 14:32:29 »

Sometimes having to do without the car sometimes makes you realise how we would, or would not,  manage without it - a blinking nightmare, the public transport system gets slower and less reliable, more expensive and frustrating every time i am forced to use it    :(

i will fight to the death to keep my car  >:(

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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #9 on: 16 April 2010, 14:34:49 »

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if you miss the bus here, the next one is not until next week!

i went to epsom on the bus a couple of years ago, had to run like hell to catch the 5.30pm bus back to heathrow, was the last bus. run all night out the front here
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #10 on: 16 April 2010, 14:37:27 »

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if you miss the bus here, the next one is not until next week!
What good is the bus? If you live in Brackley, you can get to Bicester, but have to stay a week before you can get home.  If you live in that hellhole often referred to as Bicester, or any of the villages en route, then you get to Brackley, but can't get off the bus (as it leaves a few seconds after it arrives).

Why. Idiots.
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« Reply #11 on: 16 April 2010, 14:38:45 »

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Good God No ! - how else do i get to the pub and back home for free
I use the staggering method.

If I collapse before getting home, and I haven't lost the phone, I ring Mrs TB for a lift....
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #12 on: 16 April 2010, 14:41:21 »

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Totally agree, buses round here have at most 3 people on at anyone time, now if that is less pollution per person then it's bloody beyond me  >:( >:(
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #13 on: 16 April 2010, 15:00:52 »

We must be lucky here, (lydney, gloucestershire) there are so few buses, they are mostly full-up, and because there is only one bus to, and one bus from a day, you dare not miss it. The driver knows nearly everybody, and he waits for you if you are late!!

this place wouldn't function without public transport!
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Re: good start to the weekend
« Reply #14 on: 16 April 2010, 15:18:04 »

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Simple answer - avoid trains and public tranport. In fact, they should all be banned.

.. along with muppets, teenagers and that type of "lady". :y

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