[aghastpumpkin]

I'm going on a date, yes a date. But herein lies a rather silly problem.

The girl lives in a town about 30 miles from me. It takes half an hour-ish to get there by car. Not a problem getting there then - you'd have thought.

However, to my astonishment, by public transport the quickest route is by train via CROYDON (South London) and takes nearly 2 hours.

Two hours to go 30 miles? The frustrating thing is trying to make a journey using more than one medium of transport. The stupid problem is, the bus service from Three Bridges (Near Gatwick) to this town leaves 2 mintues before each train service arrives at the station.
With a frequency of 1 bus every 2 hours, you'd have to wait 115~ minutes for the next bus. So getting a train to Three Bridges and then a bus to her town is not at all viable, because the bus leaves 1 minute before the train gets there. How stupid is that!

Why on earth they don't change this so the bus leaves 5 minutes AFTER just....astonishes me.

I think things like this desperately need to improve in an effort to stop people using cars. And it's such obvious stuff.....and stuff that would be so easy to change.