Does UK Public transport live up to expectations?
Introduction
Public transportation has always been a key issue to the government by
trying to promote public transport more than using a car. Today public
transport is pushed more to help reduce factors of pollution and
congestion which seem to be growing all over the UK.
Transportation needs vary greatly depending on peoples commuting needs
and therefore trying to focus on transport as a whole over the UK is
very difficult to research.
I have used over 20 documents to help me research this statement.
Literature Review
Out of the documents that I was able to find the documents seemed to
have very positive or negative opinions about public transport with
only a few mixed opinions. The following facts were from mixed view
documents.
There were many documents which were about crime on public transport
and around areas of public transport. The main issues were about train
stations and buses where situations of theft were experienced on
regular basis. Crime is a factor which is now being dealt with
increasingly with investments going into cameras at train stations and
increased security. Buses are also being equipped with cameras on
board so that drivers can see the upper floor. These articles can be
found in the appendix and are articles AP 1, 3, 4 and 5.
Many articles were also mixed as they acknowledged improvements being
made but were also negative as plans are always based on 5 to10 year
developments and cost millions if not billions of pounds. This seems
to make people loose faith in public transport as it is slow and
costly. An example of this is the £10bn investment into the London
underground found in appendix.
Many articles brought forward positive opinions of public transport
these opinions and facts are as follows.
There are new websites being created to help people plan their
journeys by public transport. These sort of sites help people by
telling someone which, buses and trains they may need and which ones.
A site which I used is www.transportdirect.co.uk. A site like this
gives people confidence as they know what forms of transport they may
need and how long a journey may take. In appendix this site can be
found as AP6.
New investments are being made to link major cities. An example is
Leeds and Sheffield being linked by one train route. This is designed
to help reduce congestion on the M1 this can be seen in appendix AP7.
Appendix article AP8 shows achievements made over 2003 and 2004 and
tells us of more park and rides schemes being used and set up more.
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If you live in a town or a city where the public transport networks are regular and offer a multitude of routes it makes sense to use it. Especially in big cities like London where the tubes offer a great service, allowing you to travel all over the city without the stress of driving on the busy roads or having to pay the congestion charges.