(14 Jun 2014, 1:47 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote I have been travelling all over the country for the latter part of the week, using bus, tube and train for the majority of the time, whilst down south.

Based on the Hampshire/Berkshire border, I had to commute around Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire, before heading home. I may have gone into Wiltshire at one point too.

There was no bother with anything majorly delayed. Fares were always reasonable. Everything seemed clean and tidy. Connections (of which there were many) were made without any fuss. Except once.

That once? When getting off the train in Durham and heading for a bus from North Road.
Apart from the inevitable delays, there were timetables which contradicted themselves and when I asked a GNE driver about a particular missing service, I got a mumbled answer, that made no sense whatsoever.

Stagecoach in Andover, Reading Buses, TfL Northern Line, East Coast, Great Western, CrossCountry, South West... No issues.
Step off the train, come slap bang, face first into DCC and GNE at their very worst.

Why can it work with umpteen organisations and operators up and down the country, but not at home?

Welcome home Andreos...

So because you got a mumbled answer from a driver, this is GNE at its very worse and can I ask which service you were asking about?

Also, in London as we know TfL are funded in a multiple ways whereby up home we are not. Does Nexus, DCC, NCC get income from business rates to prop up local transport service for example, along with government grants?

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tf...are-funded