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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Michael C. Edwards
<Michael.Edwards at eduserv.org.uk> wrote:
> People keep banging on about put more money into public transport!! When I last checked public
> transport was run by private companies who are making a profit! Why should the tax payer give
> more money to private companies?!

Agreed - *public* transport should be in *public* ownership.

> Walking to work or cycling is not an option unless you leave close to work. I live 14 miles away and I know many who live further.

I cycle 15 miles in to work, and more on the way back home to have a
gentler hill climb in Bath. I just don't do it every day, yet. The
railway path is easy going even for someone relatively unfit like me
:)

> Using public transport is not viable. For me it cost £9 per day, takes nearly 1 hour each way and
> I am tied to their timetable!! Public transport is not flexible enough and not cheap enough to make
> it worth tolerating the inflexibility. The service is also sufficiently poor as to make me never want to use it again.

The trains aren't great, but not so bad that I'd want to drive into Bristol.

Buses? See this BBC Action Network article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A22491452

> Why is this Jam Busting week not promoting working from home??

It is. One of the travel diary options is "worked at home". It
promotes anything that isn't solo car occupancy. It's still an
exercise in greenwash from the four councils that make up the former
Avon area.

> Then I would not have to come to the office at all which would solve the cycling/walking/congestion and public transport problems!

And you'd miss the office banter, no doubt ;)

Tim