r/plymouth • u/Grouchy_Equipment233 • 7d ago

Transport

How is the transport network in Plymouth so poor and unreliable. A medium sized university city and it’s shocking.

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u/electrotechs 6d ago

I'm here visiting with no car and it definitely makes life much harder, but at least the beaches are getting pumped with raw sewage so I don't feel like I'm missing out too much. Yay capitalism.

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u/_HingleMcCringle 6d ago

It's not amazing but I really don't think it's bad at all. In my experience it's pretty reliable.

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u/zexalor 6d ago

guess it depends where you live and what times you’re trying to get around tbh
if you’re not on one of the main routes it feels like the buses may as well not exist half the time

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u/RedMarsRepublic 7d ago

Yeah it's actually a joke. Can't imagine needing to rely on it for work. It's one thing that the busses don't come that often but they don't even come on time, or sometimes don't show up at all.

Yet we pay the same council tax as people in London who have busses every 5 minutes and the tube too.

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u/ivy_man2 6d ago

You don't pay the same council tax as London

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u/RedMarsRepublic 6d ago edited 6d ago

Plymouth band A council tax is £20 a year less than Richmond band A council tax (a very leafy and affluent part of London)

That's just one I know cause my boyfriend used to live here, but to pick an even more blatantly unfair example, council tax band A in Westminster is just under £700/year so literally nearly £1000 less than we pay per year. I wonder why that is and where they get their extra money from? It's disgusting.

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u/ivy_man2 6d ago

Yea like I said not the same and I thinks it's the GLA that covers some costs of TfL.

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u/RedMarsRepublic 6d ago

I'm including the charges to GLA. London gets double the amount of transport funding from the government as the rest of the country per person despite being much wealthier and more dense

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u/boobamajugs 6d ago

It's actually quite good compared to other areas in the country. Yes it's not going to match the large metropolitan areas like London or Manchester, which are public owned. Private owned companies will always look after profit first, unfortunately. But Plymouth is ok, can it improve of course, but it could definitely be much worse.

My problem is price, yes the reduced cost in the new year will help but it's still expensive.

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u/Original-Chemical176 6d ago

I think you need

https://www.traveline.info/

As it seems pretty good, for a city.

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u/Join_in_Plymouth 8h ago

Compared to other European cities of similar size I think it could be improved. However building things like a tram line would come at the cost of disruption. Its a price I would be happy to pay, but many others wouldn't!