(29 Oct 2023, 3:25 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Absolutely this.But people learning to drive has decreased steadly since 2016/7 and its still going down, and with the prices going up when I was learning it was £30 an hour and my driving instructer just before i passed was putting it upto £35 an hour, and I can see why people cannot afford it, its over 3x the minimum wage.
While some on here bang on about buses not taking people where they want to go, we mustn't overlook the fact that planners and schedulers could spend millions on surveys finding out where people wanted to go - thus solving the problem - only to find that people are still not using the bus services on a network that has been redesigned and ostensibly improved.
No matter what you do, people are not going to give up the convenience and utility that the car offers. Let's face it, if you can afford to run a car, then you're probably not going to use a bus.
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Really bus driving is a specialist skill and there are only so many people who passing their test and wanting to become a bus drivers, I'd imagine its a small percentage. It's going down 815K(2016/2017), 795K(17/18), 761K(18/19), 734K (19/20) THis was after covid 2020: 388,166 2021: 552,100, 2022: 801,932, thats an average of around 500K a year and with the backlog and the high population its clearly decreasing so there definetly is a market for public transport but it hast to work for the population