Hi all,
My name's Helen, I am a mum of 2 lovely little 'angel's'. I enjoy surfing the net, holiday...
Hi all,
My name's Helen, I am a mum of 2 lovely little 'angel's'. I enjoy surfing the net, holidays, shopping and ooking after my angels. Feel free to leave a message in my guestbook. Helen xx
Member since:02.07.2005
Reviews:7
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I used city line buses before I got my car 9 months ago. Now I really appreciate having a car - especially with 2 under 5's.
The buses are cramped, hardly any moving space to get on or off, are usually full, not of old age pensioners going home after a day's shopping, but young to middle aged women, travelling alone who decide to take up a whole seat with themselves and their 10 - 21 shopping bags, leaving no room for anyone to sit down. Perhaps this is because there is a monstrous lack of luggage space.
There is a disabled persons space on some of the buses, meant for wheelchairs, however, usually taken up by young mum's with babies or toddler's in buggies (guilty!). The seats are uncomfortable and not very wide, The steps on a double decker are steep if you find yourself sitting upstairs it's a bumpy walk down while the bus is in motion.
My experience of these buses aren't very good as I have often finished work in the rush hour, then gone to the nearest bus stop only to find that over an hour later I'm still waiting there, even though there was a choice of 3 buses I could have caught, one being a slightly further walk to my home, but beats an hour's wait by far.
Another downside is that the area I live in doesn't actually have many direct bus routes south even though I do live on the south side of town. I think there is one but it goes all round the estates then into town. So if I want to go further south I have to go into town and back out, which is going away from where I want to go to come back again, and paying (what I believe are) extortionate fares to do it too. It costs about £2.20 for a return ticket from my house to the centre which is approximately 3 to 4 miles away.
There are certainly enough bus routes in Bristol, and a lot more in the centre and the north than in the south, however there never seem to be enough buses on one particular route at any given time.
The drivers are friendly and polite enough but always seem to be in a rush for their morning coffee or afternoon tea, therefore giving you a very bumpy ride.
My advice is if you don't have much choice, then you may as well travel by bus, but it's probably better to invest in driving lessons and a car, or stretch those legs and get some good exercise. It might be nice if trams were brought back into use one day in the near future.
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