(13 Nov 2018, 11:20 am)Rob44 wrote also in my car I can listen to music, be guaranteed a seat, be guaranteed my car will turn up, choose who I share my car with etc etc. Its all about making an alternative to car travel as cheap as possible and more convenient ( in my view) others may have different priorities . £3 just seemed an amount per day that would get me out of my car and on to public transport.... but I would still need my car as I sometimes start at 6am and finish at midnight so buying a weekly/monthly/yearly ticket wouldn't help me at all either.

I pretty much echo these views atm.

One thing I will say that isn't making buses an attractive option is increasing traffic levels in busy areas, for me living in Newton Aycliffe my main bus route is the 7 between Darlington and Durham and there seems to be more and more traffic with each passing week heading in and out of Darlo and Durham and as such the timekeeping is becoming poor and I'm now at the stage where I'm fed up with standing around for up to an hour in some cases for a service that's supposed to run every 15 minutes, so I am now at the stage where I wish to ditch the bus and get a driving licence to avoid potentially waiting for 60 minutes for a bus home in Ferryhill that's late purely for the fact its a Friday, the more people who take this view, the more cars there is on the road meaning more traffic and longer journey times for bus journeys which only puts more people off the bus as most people want to get to where they want to be quickly.