Buses – Routes and Timetables

Transport in the UK 2013

Few people would disagree that transport in the UK is in crisis. Road traffic is growing by the day, leading to congestion, pollution, safety concerns, health problems, climate change and for many a reduction in the quality of life. The total distance travelled by all motor vehicles in Britain is almost 500 billion kilometres, more than 40 round trips from Earth to the planet Pluto. Meanwhile, if all the cars in Britain were lined up head to tail they would go twice round the world. These figures are frightening but things are set to get even worse. The latest figures show that traffic is rising by 2 per cent annually, enough to make a big difference in just a few years.

Today traffic dominates our lives.

Despite cancelling some environmentally damaging road schemes when it took power in 1997, the Government now seems convinced that motorists want another big road-building programme. And the roads lobby is exerting pressure on local authorities and regional government to bring forward schemes. There are around 80 schemes currently in the national roads programme, many of which will damage wildlife sites or beautiful landscapes, and all of which will ultimately generate extra traffic.

Meanwhile, the alternatives to the car are too limited. Public transport in many areas remains inadequate. Trains are expensive and fall short of people’s expectations, bus use continues to decline in many parts of the country and in London the Underground has reached capacity. Meanwhile traffic danger, a poor quality street environment and fear of crime prevent many people undertaking everyday journeys by walking and cycling.

From family holidays to day trips, birthdays to stag and hen parties and sporting events to corporate days and airport transfers, we guarantee to provide you with the right minibus at the right price each and every time.

Air travel brings its own problems. People and the environment face serious threats from the rapidly expanding aviation industry, including growing emissions of climate change gases into the atmosphere and excessive noise for people living around airports.

But the future for transport is not without hope. Rail improvements are being made, some cities such as London and Brighton have shown that buses can be turned around, trams have made a comeback after being taken off the streets to make way for the car in the 1950s, more roads are getting traffic calming, workplaces up and down the country are encouraging ‘green commuting’, and schools and parents are working together to help children walk to school once more.

The message is clear: we do not have to accept a future of traffic hell. There is another way forward.

Some of the Best Bus Routes in the UK are listed below. They are punctual, reliable, frequent, run on useful and popular routes, go through beautiful places and their users see them more than as a purely functional means of transport: