"and warned transport chiefs that local residents 'will defend their public transport.'"

Then start using it and stop using your cars.

Bus driver on this route wrote:
"and warned transport chiefs that local residents 'will defend their public transport.'"

Then start using it and stop using your cars.

But their lovely new hondas and 4x4 are so much comfier

Bus Driver, you've hit the nail on the head. The problem here is that route viability will not change, so there's no point in just flogging the dead horse. Instead, organisations bodies such as SWT, DfT, yes and even our gone tomorrow Brown's poodle transport secretary Ruth Kelly start a) thinking about integrated transport and b) actually doing something about it. This bus route is not mentioned on the National Rail Enquiries website, not even the SouthWest Trains website. Why not? How will people outside the region know it exists? There is no integrated national bus timetable website. Why not? What are the DfT actually for? Even in the 1950s we had more integration than today. Nobody in this country can plan any bus journey that involves any kind of connection, therefore the only possible bus or bus/rail journeys are those that start and end on the same route. What a massive waste of opportunity for such a simple solution! And on the bus itself - Is there through ticketing onto the train via PORTIS? Answer No. Can you use an Oystercard? Answer No. Painting the bloody bus in SWT colours does not integrate it!
How is a passenger travelling from Scotland to visit someone (say) in Ampfield or Hursley ever going to know this bus route exists,let alone plan to use it?
It just takes a good politician to get to the root of some of these issues instead of just shouting "I'm against it, whatever it is!" So I guess that rules out the inept Sandra Gidley as well.

Buses in Ampfield? Wow!

Who cares about buses?

Where are all the comments across this site??


Maybe 'Talking Head' has got a job on the Echo!!!