[Margaret Pilkington]

The problem with public transport services is that in bad weather they are unreliable....they don't start early enough to get those folk with an early start, to work......those folk who work late into the evening also have problems, because many buses have either stopped running or only run an hourly service....meaning long waits, in the dark, the cold and the wet. And if you are one fo the unfortunate folk who work weekends AND unsocial hours you often have to find alternative means to get to work.
Transport services are also damned expensive.

If the government really wanted to solve city congestion, they should have formulated a
public transpot infrastructure that made it reasonable both in time and cost for people to leave their cars at home.
Transport needs to be cheaper than car travel, reliable and timely....start early to catch the early workes(if necessary, put workers buses on ) and not stop at 8pm as some workers do not finish a shift until 10pm.
At present the barriers to this are the fact that fuel charges have rocketed and transport services are in the hands of comapanies whose main aim is to make a profit.