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.
Yesterday I moved Bream from Nantwich to Middlewich and had to go back for the car. For those who don't know there is a direct and not particularly busy A road between the two. It's a journey of 11 miles or so. Needless to say the bus companies take a different approach. Firstly you can't go directly from town to town, you have to change at Crewe. Secondly it does indeed go around every minor street and deviation it can find. From when I got on the bus in Middlewich town centre to when we finally left the town was just short of 20 minutes travel and as the crow flies less than half a mile. The same happened in Crewe. At one point we were driving *away* from Crewe down the main road into the town. Total journey time 1 hour 55 minutes (including 5 minutes between buses in Crewe). Total cost £5.80. The only positive thing about the experience was that at one point we passed a petrol station in a suburb I didn't even know existed that was selling unleaded at under a pound a litre so I went there on the way back to fill up! Oh and the journey back including the deviation for fuel took 25 mins. In London on Monday this week I would gladly have been without a car - 2 hours stuck in Greenwich because of the Blackwall Tunnel closure - but anywhere else in the country public transport is frankly a joke. Steve NB Bream
