Does UK Public transport live up to expectations?

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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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