Bus pass applied for.

[PK99]

Er, when I was your age I was doing 100 mile bike rides! Now I couldn't turn a pedal! You never know what's around the corner!!🧐

Snap!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Do you always remain standing in a pub, or do you take your own folding chair with you wherever you go?

Good question! Yes, I prefer to stand. If anyone says "why aren't you sitting down" I just tell them my hip's playing up and I find sitting uncomfortable.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Well indeed, but currently I have no reason to doubt…there’s always electric assist

I do also own a car…

Get yourself a blue badge!

 

[vickster]

Get yourself a blue badge!

I don’t need one…I have a driveway unlike some who have to park their car on the road

 

[Accy cyclist]

If you're eligible for one, apply for it.

Mmm, I might just do that!🤔

 

[Accy cyclist]

I don’t need one…I have a driveway unlike some who have to park their car on the road

Yeah, but when you go to Waitrose you can park in the disabled bay and not get blocked in by some @#~! who parks so close you can't open your fecking car door!!

 

[vickster]

Yeah, but when you go to Waitrose you can park in the disabled bay and not get blocked in by some @#~! who parks so close you can't open your fecking car door!!

I don’t often go to Waitrose, and if I do there are spaces on the street.
Bye

 

[PaulSB]

In 2011/12 I qualified for a bus pass as my epilepsy meant I was classed as disabled. At that time my driving licence was revoked. The pass was useful but my main recollection was bus travel was very slow. For example the hospital journey I had to make involved three buses over two hours or more, the hospital is 20/25 minutes by car.

I qualify by age now but would rarely have time to take the bus. What we need is a far more integrated public transport system.

 

[Dave7]

Not use ours since Covid started.
Handy for town. Tried further afield eg Chester and Liverpool but it takes forever as it goes all round the world.

 

[welsh dragon]

Do you never go anywhere out of your immediate area, then?

I do. I drive it's easier

 

[annedonnelly]

If you're eligible for one, apply for it. There's no compulsion on you to use either of them, but one or t'other of them might be useful in different circumstances.

My dad has NEVER used buses. He would much rather jump in his gas-guzzling car. But since his stroke he's unable to drive and never off the bus. The bus company must be wondering if his pass has been cloned - it's used for so many journeys.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm counting the days. Well, months actually. But not many of them.

 

[Lozz360]

Time to move to Greater London then...not only free buses, but also trains, tubes, DLR, Crossrail (from next week), trams off peak...

Don't you have to have an Oyster photo card (costs £20) to qualify for free travel if you are aged from 60 to state pension age? So it is cheap travel but not free.

 

[vickster]

Don't you have to have an Oyster photo card (costs £20) to qualify for free travel if you are aged from 60 to state pension age? So it is cheap travel but not free.

Maybe...that's pretty much free (the daily cap here is around £13)
@PK99 might know (I don't qualify yet )

 

[ColinJ]

Maybe...that's pretty much free (the daily cap here is around £13)

£13 'pretty much free'...

There has never been a time in my 66 years that £13 has been a trifling sum of money!

Up until getting my pension in January, that was my budget for 2.5 days worth of shopping.