Considering that the UK is such a small island, why do we have such crap and overpriced public transport?!?!
Most return train fares are far more than it would cost a lone person to make the same journey in a car, including the cost of parking, so why on earth would I want to sit (stand?!) for hours on public transport, listening to other people's music, and smelling other people's BO or overpowering perfume?!?
You can usually forget the advantage of being able to read the paper, as normally there isn't enough elbow room to read a book, or get a tissue out your pocket.
I say privatise it again, and make sure all journeys are the equivalent in cost per mile as petrol for an economical car!!
The simple way to sort this out would have been to have a "Midlands" olympics rather than having it in London, which is the only city where you can happily live without a car in most areas!
Stadiums could have been build in cities such as Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Lincoln, Oxford, Norwich, Nottingham etc... and an amazing public transport network could have been built between all cities, so not only would it sort our lousy public transport out, it would have boosted UK cities other than London!
No MBF this week. sigh. Although I haven't missed him at all!
I've also worked out who bull-shit boy reminds me of! That one from Little Britain, who always goes on about being Molly Sugdon's bridesmaid!!