[canals-list] Re: User charges (was BW's investment portfolio)

[rb999sb]

--- In canals-list@yahoogroups.com, John Slee <j...@...> wrote:
>
> Steve Wood wrote:
> >> Bru wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> On average, in this area, any given bus journey takes around 5 times
> >>> longer than the equivalent car journey (due to the buses going all
> >>> around the houses) and costs about twice as much.
> >>>       
> >> - but anywhere else in the country public transport is frankly a joke.
> >>     
> No it's not - in fact it's b***** good. We don't have a car, and in 
> general we find public transport a terrific resource. Just because a car 
> goes the direct route does not mean that the per capita travel cost is 
> less than that of a deviant bus. ;-)
> 
> As for cost - why don't you just get older quicker? - Twirlies* are to 
> be coveted - (I should know - I'm looking forward to getting mine in 
> 2011, unless the next govt puts the age up from 60 to 65.)
> -- 
> 
> WBW
> 
> John
> (* Twirlies - as in bus driver to potential passenger, "You can't use 
> that on this bus dear - you're t'wirly")
>
It does depend on where you are going to. We can't get from our house in 
Reading to the hospital by bus and we had a similar problem on the Ashby canal 
where we couldn't get to the railway station.
Sue