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« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2015, 09:37:09 »

Good to be here Graham, although predominantly train related topics here we like to be up to speed on the bus front.

It's one of the curiosities of the public transport world that we haven't totally fathomed yet that people will organise and get behind their local train service, and indeed ask questions and come up with their own suggestions far more than they will for their local bus service. (It may be a case of "careful what you wish for" / I personally take care to research any suggestions I put forward and then defer and look to understand the expert's inputs, but not everyone does).  My understanding is that more bus than train journeys are made in the UK (United Kingdom), but more public transport journey mileage is done by train - and yet the difference in online / forum interest, and community partnership, seems "chalk and cheese".

So - PLEASE - feel free to add bus information / your bus information here.  It will be very gratefully received and I know you'll be able to fill in gaps in my posts (and others) where perhaps we didn't know prices or reasons for things. 
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« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2015, 09:42:06 »

I would say I'd prefer running buses in Spain

But then your usual exemplary reliability would be awful... Sad Certainly in the rural parts of Spain the 20 or times I waited for a bus it only turned up 3 or 4 times! Angry As for punctuality I'm not even going to go there............ Lips sealed
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