Is there really a transport problem? Do the benefits of motorized transport outweigh the costs? Are there any minor (or perhaps major) changes you personally feel could make our present transport system more sustainable?
Do I think there's a Transport Problem ?? .....YESS I DO !!
Firstly public transport is absoloutly ridicolous, in certain areas such as Northampton you can not rely on public transport. The bus drivers seem to stop working when they feel like it .. Not considering the public !! For instance last week Thursday [18.02.2010] it decided to snow but buses where still running and i needed to head off to London that evening and all of the sudden no buses came, although on the electronic board it said 10mins and other times the buses would arrive, i stood there for almost 1hour waiting and the bus comapny never thought of informing all passengers. Which I thought was ridicolous. Another problem with Northampton bus service is that there are no 24hour buses which run around Northampton. And this is a bad idea, if there were 24hour bus service running there might be less crimes running as people can get home safe and the latest Rape case might not have happened. The bus service in Northampton is a JOKE ..and does not help the public in anyway.
However one can disagree with my above statement, argueing that Northampton Bus services are doing what the society needed making the society 'SUSTAINABLE'. Northampton in general is a place that needs alot of attention, it needs help immediately. The area is not sustainable whats soo ever. And Maybe the idea that most bus comes every 30mins is a start, and also the idea that theres a last bus which is around 11pm shows the effort they are making in order to making public transport more sustainable. However this can be negatively portraited as more people will start relying on Taxis and encoraging people to start driving.
If you take London as a example, its not a sustainble enviornment. Whereas the bus services run every 5-10mins, resulting to pollutions and esses gas to the air.
And Public Transport so expensive now-a-days that you actually question whether theres a point of it. Northampton Bus service so expensive that it cost £15 a week travel, and most bus service stops running whenever they please actually making you feel that your losing out and not getting your moneys worth.
There nothing I can do in order to make present trasnsport system sustainable. The government who are in charge of the Transportation need to digg in and start a whole new plan. Because the Transport system in certain areas such as Northampton needs alot of help and attention. As for me what i can do is raise this issue so that its known to the local government.
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Transport in Northampton is a major problem which I totally agree with you on, I think that a later bus service for the university is a good idea as less people would be using seperate taxis to go on nights out which would be cheaper and more fuel efficient. I also agree that the price of transport is way too high if they are trying to persuade people to travel on the buses rather than the car because when you compare it at the moment theres not that much difference in price in public transport and car tavel
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