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On the Yorkshire buses

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    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    I found it really horribly edited and incredibly repetitive. Padded out with too many 'previews' of what's coming up next. And the narration is as patronising as hell. Although it's a very good advertisement against privatisation. Makes you realise what a relatively good and well-funded public transport system we have in Dublin.

    The Secret Life of a Bus Garage is way better.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6dNcCYwbs


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    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    I found it really horribly edited and incredibly repetitive. Padded out with too many 'previews' of what's coming up next. And the narration is as patronising as hell. Although it's a very good advertisement against privatisation. Makes you realise what a relatively good and well-funded public transport system we have in Dublin.

    Except it's not really full scale privatisation in the UK as most bus comapnies would get a subsidy from local councils to operate unprofitable routes as well as except their equivalent of FTP.


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    mercedeslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭mercedeslimos


    When I lived in Yorkshire (89-01) it was still under the control of the company formed by a management buyout of the old PTE operation. COuld get across West Yorkshire for a few quid a day on a ticket, with frequent buses and you were never too far from a bus. Assume it's all changed now.


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