Steve WoodsThe embarrassingly dire state of (public) transport in #Bristol cf. Europe.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/how-bristols-transport-falling-behind-10850025
Alexa Devreux-SwiftI used to live a similar distance from Bristol city centre as I now do from Munich city centre.
Typical public transport journey to Bristol, over one hour.
Typical S-Bahn journey to Munich, 40 minutes.
And this is GERMANY, which has had pitiful investment into infrastructure for decades.
@alexadeswift I lived in Saarbrücken in the mid-1970s.
Even then, it made the UK look backward in terms of public transport.
I grew up on the buses in the 70s and 80s, due to my dad being a bus driver. The worst thing ever to happen to them was deregulation and privatisation.
The UK needs to reverse that, and surely look into a flat fare monthly ticket for travel on the entire public transport network, and even free public transport in the bigger metropolitan regions!?
Luxembourg has entirely free public transport across the entire country for goodness sake!
Feòrag@alexadeswift @wood5y @afewbugs There would be issues with it being a devolved matter. How do we get England on board with such ideas?
@feorag @alexadeswift @afewbugs Somehow I can't see that part of the British state running Englandshire ditching its stingy attitude and reducing the qualifying age for bus passes to 60 (as per Cymru and Scotland).