Reading the letter ‘Stopping the Bus' (The Weekend Sun, January 17, page 26), L Chandler has prompted me to sympathise with them.
I used to regularly go to the hospital on the buses before the change in bus company in around twenty minutes in both directions with a half hourly service from Pyes Pa road.
I now rarely use the bus unless I have plenty of time to waste. The bus goes to Greerton where a wait for the next bus to the hospital can be ten minutes or could be 20 minutes so the trip will generally take closer to double the time it used to.
However, it's far worse to get home again with a bus from the hospital to Greerton then a wait for the next bus; the last trip was around 17 minutes.
The bus doesn't go up Pyes Pa road anymore so it's get off at Cheyne Road and walk for ten minutes – not easy in the heat – or stay on the bus and go for a long ride, emerge onto Pyes Pa Road again and stop near Inverness Drive where the run apparently ends, or at least waits to restart or change to another bus.
So it's a walk again, wait or change of buses to get back to where I caught the bus in the beginning at the Pyes Pa shops. This trip took more than 45 minutes, but the bus driver told me I was exaggerating and that there are now three buses an hour instead of two!
Hardly the point if a trip takes longer and several uncomfortable waiting times in any weather at a bus stop have to be included and I still had not reached my original destination.
So this is progress and the improved bus system (and more expensive I'm told) with more buses and better connection? Well not the intended encouragement for me or neighbours to use buses more. In my case the exact opposite.
A Terry, Pyes Pa (abridged).
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