Public Transport

[TheSire]

42 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

 

It costs us £224 a month for the boys to get to and from school and it’s only 2.6 miles away for fucks sake. 

Soprano Transport Ltd?

[Engineman Hicks]

51 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Why is he wearing two coats? Is it -50 where you live?

No it was very warm here today. I don't think the 2 coats is the issue though

[lifetime fan]

12 minutes ago, TheSire said:

Soprano Transport Ltd?

Plymouth City Bus. 

[TheBitch]

Everywhere in Europe seems to do it better and cheaper than us, I got a train from Porto to Lisbon the other year, it’s about 200 miles and it cost about €20 on the day. 
 

You got to Krakow or Prague and the bus into the city centre from the airport is about £2. 
 

We get absolutely rinsed here with expensive trips, delays, and cunts everywhere. 

[Creator Supreme]

Just now, TheBitch said:

Everywhere in Europe seems to do it better and cheaper than us, I got a train from Porto to Lisbon the other year, it’s about 200 miles and it cost about €20 on the day. 
 

You got to Krakow or Prague and the bus into the city centre from the airport is about £2. 
 

We get absolutely rinsed here with expensive trips, delays, and cunts everywhere. 

Spot on, and the sad thing is that public transport is needed more than ever.

 

We need to get away from private car ownership, and I say that as somebody who enjoys driving.

 

Net zero will never be possible whilst the car is king, and we don't have the infrastructure to change that.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 hours ago, Engineman Hicks said:

This chap is opposite me on the commute home tonight. 

 

[Tj hooker]

I get the bus into work every week day Arriva are fucking terrible for being late , but on the plus side it costs me fuck all as here in Wales I get an over 60s bus pass , win win .

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Strontium said:

It's fucking shocking. Anyone involved with it in any way should be thoroughly ashamed and constantly questioning what they've done with their life.

 

We only get 2 buses per hour here, despite it being a densely packed urban area with no train access. I've made a point now of registering a complaint every time a bus fails to turn up, which is frequently, because they have to investigate it and email me with a reason for their failure, which is always a high quality excuse of the "dog ate my homework" calibre.

 

If the cunts are going to waste my time, I'm sure as hell going to waste theirs.

 

Cunts. CUNTS.

You're not wasting the time of the cunts responsible, though: you're wasting the time of people who are likely to be overworked and underpaid for the same reason that buses and trains in the UK are shite - because money-grabbing bastards have no thought for providing a service, because the Tories set up a system (continued by Labour and Lib Dems) in which the role of the people who make the big decisions is simply to extract as much money as possible.

[Strontium]

13 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

You're not wasting the time of the cunts responsible, though: you're wasting the time of people who are likely to be overworked and underpaid for the same reason that buses and trains in the UK are shite - because money-grabbing bastards have no thought for providing a service, because the Tories set up a system (continued by Labour and Lib Dems) in which the role of the people who make the big decisions is simply to extract as much money as possible.

 

It's their job. If they don't want to deal with customer complaints, they should work for someone less useless than Arriva.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 minute ago, Strontium said:

 

It's their job. If they don't want to deal with customer complaints, they should work for someone less useless than Arriva.

Yeah, because it's that easy.

[Engineman Hicks]

3 hours ago, Strontium said:

It's fucking shocking. Anyone involved with it in any way should be thoroughly ashamed and constantly questioning what they've done with their life.

 

We only get 2 buses per hour here, despite it being a densely packed urban area with no train access. I've made a point now of registering a complaint every time a bus fails to turn up, which is frequently, because they have to investigate it and email me with a reason for their failure, which is always a high quality excuse of the "dog ate my homework" calibre.

 

If the cunts are going to waste my time, I'm sure as hell going to waste theirs.

 

Cunts. CUNTS.

They will have a nickname for you which was a question in their Christmas quiz. 

[Bjornebye]

30 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

It's their job. If they don't want to deal with customer complaints, they should work for someone less useless than Arriva.

So you’re happy making someone else’s life a complete misery through no fault of their own and your solution is they find another job instead of maybe you stop being such a spiteful little crybaby and do something more constructive about it. I saw your twitter years back and you were tweeting merseytravel on a regular basis. 
 

It’s your right to complain of course but why not find a more practical solution? 

[johnsusername]

I manage the complaints system in our place, only because nobody else wants to. 

 

To be fair most of the complaints are looked into by an investigating manager who will.be involved in the area of the complaint. 

[Strontium]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

So you’re happy making someone else’s life a complete misery through no fault of their own and your solution is they find another job instead of maybe you stop being such a spiteful little crybaby and do something more constructive about it. I saw your twitter years back and you were tweeting merseytravel on a regular basis. 
 

It’s your right to complain of course but why not find a more practical solution? 

 

If you work in a complaints department, it's your job to deal with complaints. If I pay money for a service I'm not receiving, you bet I am exercising my RIGHT to complain about it. Dolt.

 

No wonder businesses get away with murder when people are such pushovers.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

16 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

If you work in a complaints department, it's your job to deal with complaints. If I pay money for a service I'm not receiving, you bet I am exercising my RIGHT to complain about it. Dolt.

 

No wonder businesses get away with murder when people are such pushovers.

Do you imagine your bitching at customer-service cannon-fodder could possibly make any difference at all to how Arriva, Stagecoach or whoever operate?

 

Next time you feel the urge to write that complaint, instead of just mindlessly screaming at an innocent stranger, like a creepy monster from an Aphex Twin video, write to your MP or the Transport Secretary and tell them to bring it all into public ownership, so it can be run as a public service.

[Strontium]

3 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Do you imagine your bitching at customer-service cannon-fodder could possibly make any difference at all to how Arriva, Stagecoach or whoever operate?

 

Next time you feel the urge to write that complaint, instead of just mindlessly screaming at an innocent stranger, like a creepy monster from an Aphex Twin video, write to your MP or the Transport Secretary and tell them to bring it all into public ownership, so it can be run as a public service.

 

Mindlessly screaming? You just fill in an online form you dopey meff, telling them what service was missed and where it happened.

 

Yes, we all know that everything run by the public sector is perfect and never fails, but until that blessed day...

[AngryOfTuebrook]

14 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

Mindlessly screaming? You just fill in an online form you dopey meff, telling them what service was missed and where it happened.

Right, so the dick-swinging bravado of "if the cunts are going to waste my time I'm going to waste theirs" really should have said "ooh, I'm ever so peeved; I'll ruddy well fill in a form".

 

14 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

Yes, we all know that everything run by the public sector is perfect and never fails, but until that blessed day...

Nobody said that.  It is, however, glaringly obvious in theory - and frequently demonstrated in practice - that things that are designed to run as public services tend to serve the public better than things that are designed to hoover up money.  You simply cannot get buses and trains to provide a decent service with the system that exists outside London.

[Strontium]

9 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Right, so the dick-swinging bravado of "if the cunts are going to waste my time I'm going to waste theirs" really should have said "ooh, I'm ever so peeved; I'll ruddy well fill in a form".

 

I mean, it's a complaints form. What other avenue did you think I would use to register a complaint? Letters written in my own shit? Banner-towing aeroplanes circling Mann Island?

[Bjornebye]

6 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

I mean, it's a complaints form. What other avenue did you think I would use to register a complaint? Letters written in my own shit? Banner-towing aeroplanes circling Mann Island?

I like the shit idea. The trains are a fucking nightmare. Northern is one pile of wank but Transpennine Express are even bigger cunts.  If I could make whoever makes the decisions for them eat a bucket of shit I wouldn’t hesitate. 
 

I just think you’re probably misplacing your anger. You’re a smart lad I think you could raise it more productively. Using shit or maybe even contacts? 

[Mook]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

7 hours ago, Strontium said:

I mean, it's a complaints form. What other avenue did you think I would use to register a complaint? Letters written in my own shit? Banner-towing aeroplanes circling Mann Island?

 

8 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

write to your MP or the Transport Secretary and tell them to bring it all into public ownership, so it can be run as a public service.

 

[Kevin D]

On 10/03/2025 at 17:24, Strontium said:

It's fucking shocking. Anyone involved with it in any way should be thoroughly ashamed and constantly questioning what they've done with their life.

 

We only get 2 buses per hour here, despite it being a densely packed urban area with no train access. I've made a point now of registering a complaint every time a bus fails to turn up, which is frequently, because they have to investigate it and email me with a reason for their failure, which is always a high quality excuse of the "dog ate my homework" calibre.

 

If the cunts are going to waste my time, I'm sure as hell going to waste theirs.

 

Cunts. CUNTS.

Good stuff.

[Engineman Hicks]

On 11/03/2025 at 08:36, Mook said:

There’s an interesting theory in maths that buses almost inevitably bunch together in 3s because the 1st bus takes longer to load as there are lots of people at the bus stop. Bus number 2 and 3 speed up and reduce the gap to bus 1 because they take less time to load (as all the passengers are on bus 1) then the bus stops fill up again and the sequence starts again.

[Bjornebye]

14 hours ago, Engineman Hicks said:

There’s an interesting theory in maths that buses almost inevitably bunch together in 3s because the 1st bus takes longer to load as there are lots of people at the bus stop. Bus number 2 and 3 speed up and reduce the gap to bus 1 because they take less time to load (as all the passengers are on bus 1) then the bus stops fill up again and the sequence starts again.

Yeah there’s also a theory that bus drivers can’t predict the traffic and just do their route and pick up as and when they can. Or pick them up and fuck them like @Alan Sex