Apparently on date Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:20:46 +0000, "T."
They tend not to include an element of petrol.
Indeed. I'd rather have the hbuttle of sitting in my comfortable seated, air conditioned car with a decent selection of CDs, radio, etc, when delayed by traffic, than be sitting in a bus delayed by the same traffic.
Generally speaking, anyway. It's plausible that one can strike up an interesting conversation with the other pbuttengers but, well, I have actually used buses, and, well... maybe this isn't a plus point for the bus on a grey monday morning.
No idea, I can only comment on the 8 quid or thereabouts a taxi costs from town, compared to the six quid *per pbuttenger* that a bus charges. It's marginally cheaper by bus compared to car, in that case - although it ignores having to walk a mile since the bus drops off on the main road outside my village. But once you add a second pbuttenger, the taxi wins every time.
Quite why a taxi - a car - works out cheaper than the bus, is really why I see cars as less petrol-thirsty. where else does the cost come into the fares?
Can't be the price of the driver's time - that's one to one compared to a bus driver's time being spread over all the pbuttengers.
