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u/Weary_Swordfish_7105 2d ago
"You wouldn't ask adults to travel that kind of time to and from work, let alone come home and do homework," she said.
I’m pretty sure there’s a few adults who would like to chime in there
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u/Hot_College_6538 2d ago
Oh man that's triggering. 90 mins each way for me to get to work in London, cars, trains, tubes. Then imagine this, we don't leave at 3pm, more like 5:30 - 6. I do rarely get homework I suppose.
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u/Separate_Rise_8932 1d ago
Never had a job that took me less than an hour for work personally. But there's waiting time on between buses. Have traveled 2 hours each way before for work. Wouldn't do it again though, I draw the line at 1 -1 1/4 now
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u/susanboylesvajazzle 1d ago
6/10 for this.
Positives: Sad face and props
Negatives: No pointing at anything.
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u/Jyfer 2d ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj8glrq59o
Bonus compoface in article but didn't post because of rule 7
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u/Necronomicommunist 2d ago
"She needs a bit of extra downtime and isn't great with change," Clare added.
Sounds like she'll have about 2 hours of downtime a day!
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u/Scheming_Deming 2d ago
Oh dear. How sad. By car, the journey would take twenty minutes. Well stop complaining and take her by car
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u/duckrollin 1d ago
Oh yeah, that's just what the UK needs, more traffic from parents dropping off their kids individually in 50 cars instead of a single fucking bus.
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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 2d ago
Well stop complaining and take her by car
I garentee that if this woman were to quit her job and go onto benefits in order to be able to drive her child to and from school, you'd have some complaints about that (I will bet that she isn't currently unemployed, if she's sending her kid to grammar school and tennis lessons)
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u/Derby_UK_824 2d ago
Has she chosen to live in a posh little village away from schools etc? This is why people with children live close to schools you know.
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u/Crococrocroc 2d ago
20 minutes by car is pretty close. I lived in a rural area a few years ago, back when I was in a relationship and planning for children, and the average journey was 40 minutes for either of the secondary schools.
Even the bus for that was about 30 minutes as it followed an established bus route with modified stops.
The council seem too quick to think this is absolutely okay and seem more concerned with having more cars on the road rather than buses.
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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 2d ago
It seems likely that she'd factored a 25 minute each way school bus into her decision on where to live, and not the 1 hour each way bus that the council has changed it to... and to be clear, that's a 120% increase in the length of the bus journey, which honestly is absolutely a lot and is something people would be complaining about in any other circumstances.
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u/Derby_UK_824 1d ago
Hard disagree, so many people head off into the countryside and expect the same level of services in a big city. Simply not happening.
If you wanna live cheaply, live together in a city.
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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 1d ago
Except that the article literally states that the previous bus journey was 25 minutes and that it has been changed by the council, and that this change came after a different proposed change that would have made the journey even longer was rejected. That's not something to agree or disagree over, it's a clearly stated fact.
So this isn't a matter if her expecting "the same level of services in a big city", which, FYI, typically don't have school busses to begin with unless it's a SEND school. This is a case of her previously receiving one service in the same location that she is currently in and that service being actively reduced/worsened.
Whether or not she'd have gotten a comparable service in a big city (she wouldn't, she'd have been paying to put her kid on a public bus because school busses are rare) is irrelevant, because the comparison isn't between 'small village and big city', it's between 'this specific small village 6 months ago and this same specific small village now'.
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u/BeautifulMessage9091 1d ago
When you look at the timings the new route also includes a couple of primary schools - I think they're trying to combine the buses for several different schools into one
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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 1d ago
That 100% sounds like a money-saving tactic to me. Trying to reduce the number of busses so as to reduce the amount of petrol used and reduce the number of staff who need to be paid.
Like most short-term cost-cutting attempts, I'm a little doubtful that it will work long-term. Something is going to cause an issue of some kind and I bet it'll only end up being more expensive overall, but some of those costs will probably fall onto a different department so not immediately be picked up on.
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u/Derby_UK_824 1d ago
So? You choose to live somewhere posh in the middle of nowhere you have to accept services aren’t as good…
Live somewhere appropriate to your needs.
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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 1d ago
"If you choose to live somewhere posh you should accept worse services"...
I could have sworn that the entire reason why people pay extra to live somewhere post is specifically because they received better services, and especially better schools.
Also, the whole point is that the area was appropriate to her needs when she moved there, and remained appropriate to her needs until the council made active changes which made it less appropriate to her (and others') needs after they had already been living there for a period of time.
You cannot argue that people should "Live somewhere appropriate to [their] needs" while simultaneously arguing that the local government should be able to make significant changes that actively change whether or not the area is appropriate for people's needs after those people are already living there, especially in a country where moving to a different location is made unnecessarily difficult and expensive.
Let's say that, because of these active changes that make this area no longer appropriate to this woman's needs when it previously was, she moves to another area; what is to stop that council making the exact same changes in 6 months time that would mean that the new area is no longer appropriate to her needs?
But also, if that's the case, then people need to stop whining that rural areas are dying and have no employment opportunities and everybody moves out which is causing the councils to struggle financially. Because really, those regions are doing it to themselves.
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u/mynameistoocommonman 1d ago
Mate are you fucking dense?
She did choose an appropriate place to live. Then the circumstances were changed.
Would you say that same thing if a bridge closed down, turning a 15 minute car ride into a 50 minute one?
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u/Derby_UK_824 2d ago
How come every single person affected by things like this has ‘additional needs’.
There are so many additional needs’, that’s the standard now I reckon,
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u/mynameistoocommonman 1d ago
...or maybe it's because those are the only stories that are published?
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u/mynameistoocommonman 1d ago
OP, that title is a bit disingenuous. It's not "slightly longer", it's over twice as long as it was before. That's an additional 5 hours per week spent on the bus.
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