Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Just seen this on a prepping page on fb

A good idea. You hide the stash, you could board the front to make it look like a false stud wall

jk0

I am fond of the buses here in Reading, and use them when I'm not carrying tools/ building materials around. Reading buses have an all day ticket called a 'Busabout'. This is £4.30, and allows all day travel in the greater Reading area.

However, they go and spoil that by it not being valid on all routes. Some routes are subsidised by the local councils, as they would not be money making. You can't buy or use a Busabout on them.

If I wanted to visit my mother on the bus, I'd have to get a return to the town centre, and then another return on the bus to Mum's.

Another complication is that of course other bus companies won't take them. Thus even if you see a bus going in the direction you want, you can't take it if it's from another firm.

There must be a way they could make tickets valid on any bus, the same way that train tickets are.

mardatha

Don't believe half of what you read. The govt reduced the road tax on diesel cars, then upped the price of diesel because everybody had changed over to diesel. Then they realised they were missing out on some money and are busy now trying to reverse that. Next week there will be another "expert" to say diesel is good for you...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Mardatha,

Yep I remember that..

Could it be ( I am prob to talk worng, got facts wrong as usual lol)

That they are now scare mongering about diff fuels etc and they are hoping that more people will buy hybred cars, so Britain will lower their carbon emissions , have they got targets to meet ???

As I know councils have EU targets to meets for so called recycling, and if they don't meet them they get fined.. Its all about the number crunching needi g to add up

grandma247

mardatha wrote: »

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Hands up all who can feed that family for less lol

Roughly the cost of
ten of those packs would buy you this.

moneyistooshorttomention

thriftwizard wrote: »

But let's get this straight - there may be a lot in the press about how bad diesel is just now, but petrol is just as bad if not worse as it's 20% less efficient and emits more CO2 & hydrocarbons. Please don't imagine that ditching the diesel & buying a spanking new petrol car is environmentally-friendly - it isn't, and never will be. And diesel emissions are harmful to health in inner-city environments, where they're very concentrated with thousands of engines belching fumes out in constant traffic jams, but rather than turn to petrol, people should be turning to public transport & insisting on good, cheap & efficient services as well as proper bike lanes & parks. Other countries, many of them much poorer than the UK, can manage a decent public transport infrastructure - why can't we?

Don't tend to think in terms of petrol as being "lesser evil" compared to diesel personally.

However, one thing that always struck me forcibly back in my Home City was "Why are all these people valuing their time as worthless and are quite prepared to 'spend' it right left and centre keeping cars on the road?". Forgawdsake - it was possible to get around to many locations in said Home City with just a 10 minute/15 minute wait for a bus and personally I usually didn't even bother to look up the timetable before going to wait for one. I would just head to a bus stop and wait (unless it was a Sunday or Bank Holiday - in which case = fewer buses).

I couldn't/cant understand why people weren't taking into account the number of hours they would be spending on earning money for taxing/insuring/etc the car and then the hours they would have to work to cover the costs of paying for maintenance on the car/replacing it at intervals. It was just a sheer puzzle to me why anyone would spend a 3-figure number of hours per year spending extra time at a job earning the money to cover all those sort of costs - when they could just go out and wait a few minutes for the next bus instead.

I can understand more now I've moved to Back of Beyondsville (ie where you are often told that "Its a good bus service" and then find its only hourly or worse and nowt on Sundays/Bank Holidays and are trying hard to keep the sceptical look off your face when the next person assures you that its 'good' :rotfl:).

I've long thought public transport should be free and frequent and have used some free public transport before now (eg many years back in Nottingham). Its an idea LONG past its time and I have spent time puzzling just why that isn't regarded as "As much of a necessity as access to decent health care".

I'm all the more convinced about the need for decent public transport in Back of Beyondsville - ie because of seeing many people having to cobble together "A Life" from this activity in this village, that activity in that small town, another activity in t'other village - because you're not in a big enough place to have all Your Life where you are living (as in, right now, My Life is spread between my own small town, 4 other towns and 2 villages = 7 different locations to Have A Full Life)

fuddle

Has public transport been laid out and free at any point in British history? If not, why should we expect it now?

If so, tell me more please

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Not free ever to my knowledge but more affordable than the prices are now I think. Certainly before the Beeching closures there were very many more small railway branch lines serving all parts of the country and more busses too because more people used them, not many folks being able to afford a car. Busses to rural villages were everywhere too but I think the railways and bus services were national and not privately owned so perhaps not so driven by profit as they are now. I don't think there could be a free system, but if prices were less then public transport would be a viable alternative to owning and running a vehicle I think.

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I had to come on here and say that I am reading a glorious book, so gentle and easy to read about how a family survived on so very little, how they foraged for food, how they cooked and cleaned. It is so nice to read. I have just bought the follow up book for 1p

It is `a field full of butterflies` by Rosemary Penfold

so much nostalgia of how things were for many

Just want to share, now going back to my recliner with the book

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Hi IVYLEAF it will always be necessary for some folks to run vehicles and being disabled is probably top of the list for that but a fully integrated and regular affordable transport system would mean that lots of us wouldn't need to use our vehicles every day just to get to work, the shops, hospitals, etc. which would do wonders for the environment and make life so much better.

Car sharing schemes would also fit that need. I do not have a car and have never owned one, almost like a badge of honour but if I need a vehicle for a short time I will hire one. Car sharing schemes could be very handy for a lot of people, though it is a shame there are no electric options right now.