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# they're to stop people going down the bus lanes.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:31, archived)
# makes sense to me
but they don't have bus lanes in America.
(InsaneKingKong Terrorizes cities, but leaves polite calling cards, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:33, archived)
# anyone who proposed their introduction would be shot as a commie.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:34, archived)
# In which case cameras are probably a better idea.
Yes. Cameras.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:33, archived)
# ban the bus
waste of space
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:35, archived)
# yeah 40 people in the space of two cars
wastes so much more space than two people in two cars. And it's so cheap to run a car these days! They're practically giving them away! I sneezed one out my nose this morning.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:39, archived)
# at 9am in the morning and 5pm at night there are 40 people on a bus
the rest of the day there are 3 people on the bus
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:40, archived)
# 3 is still more than 2.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:41, archived)
# so what?
who cares how many people there are in a car, driving, they've paid their road tax, they are entitled to drive on the road, oh and global warming... explain the ice age please?
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:44, archived)
# What?
Now seriously, what the fuck? People on the bus have paid for their tickets, and the bus company has paid whatever they have to as well, they're not run by gangsters. Oh and global warming. Even more what the fuck. What the fucking shuddering fuck. Argue with the entire scientific community.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:48, archived)
# buses are evil
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:50, archived)
# I'm all for walking,
but they're still a far more practical solution for most people's transport needs than individual privately-owned vehicles. Heck, it would probably be cheaper for me to get taxis everywhere than to buy and keep a car.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 5 May 2009, 23:53, archived)
# you're buying the wrong type of car (I can walk home faster than it takes the bus to get to my house - 4 miles!)
tax exempt, cheap to maintain and no stupid electronics to go wrong, besides how many cars have they built to replace my one thats still going from 1955? i'd imagine alot...
Anyways I'm tired and sleepy and I like to sleep
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Wed 6 May 2009, 0:05, archived)
# go bed.
your bus service sounds shit.
not everyone can own an old land rover, because there are a finite number of them, and I'm guessing they're all already owned.

(I'm not buying any type of car BTW, that would be foolish)
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 6 May 2009, 0:09, archived)
# bugger I missed this.
I told you before.
Toyota Hilux. Better built than any land Rover and will outlive the cockroaches. Unlike the land Rover which is unbearably shit. And I had to deal with enough of the bastards in the Artillery.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 6 May 2009, 0:16, archived)
# The Hilux is something I would consider buying if I ever need something that does what it does,
which is at present unforeseeable, but it is awesome. Mind you, I think the land rover is awesome as well. Those and the rover mini are the only cars I would consider buying for any reason at all. But I can walk, so...

I just worked out, if I worked 47 weeks a year, 5 days a week, in the centre of town, at today's prices that would cost me 47*5*2*£9 = £4230 in taxi fares. I reckon plenty of people spend that much a year or close on their cars, when you take it all into account - the price of the car itself, road tax, insurance, petrol, maintenance...
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 6 May 2009, 0:26, archived)
# Oh don't get me wrong,
given a choice, which I was, I bought a Mitsubishi L200 Warrior and have had 3. But ifI wanted a monster I could not afford to replace each year then it would always be a hilux.

As for spend?

2007 I spent £67k on a car, beginning 2008 I ordered one and put a deposit down, end 2008 I bought another one for £11k and Mar 2009 the one I ordered a year before arrived which after credit crunch cost me £70k
I'm not the average motorist ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 6 May 2009, 0:43, archived)
# I might own a car one day.
But I probably won't.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 6 May 2009, 0:45, archived)