Good old days or bad new ones

[Brickmill]

RE: Good old days or bad new ones

(07/02/2019 21:14)L80 Wrote:  I left England many years ago. I went 25 yrs without travelling on a bus (with the exception of an occasional airport coach). The last buses I traveled on were a MPTE Bristol VR on a 26A to Upper Warwick St from outside the Kop and a Northwestern National on a 309 from Warrington to St. Helens.
I recently had the misfortune to be compelled to spend some time in Aberdeen and made use of Stagecoach and First. The vehicles were just as rattly shaky and noisy and in fact with the exception of low floor/easy access were no better than those in the 60's or 70s. So much for progress eh?

Depending in where in the UK you are, I would think rattly buses would be the least of the problems for bus users/non motorists. Fare increases more than double inflation every year for a generation and service cuts/withdrawals would be further up the agenda for most. Ride quality itself has at least as much to do with whether you are sat on a proper cushion or a moulded plastic bum perch, and then there are drastic increases in journey times consistent with increased car ownership/use (for which the bus operators refuse to accept any portion of blame!) and then a whole host of local/regional issues.