> My local bus authority, Stagecoach, has been messing up with the bus service to new extremes.
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> First of all, it doesn't help that in my schools infinite (ahem) wisdom, they have decided to start school 25 minutes earlier, so they can let us home 25 minutes earlier to "watch more TV". Since the only thing on is the Teletubbies, that was not well thought out.
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> My bus authority has five sorts of buses, from large double deckers which can hold 100 people to minibuses which only hold 25 odd. The pass two days, my school (which has about 100 pupils all wanting to get on the same bus) has been getting minibusses.
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> As a result, I have to walk a mile to my local bus station. I'm not the fittest of people, and I'm nearly always puffed out by the time I get there. Of course, when i DO get there I have to wait for another hour with 75 of my school friends until, suprise suprise, they send us a minibus. I have just managed to get on said bus the last couple of days.
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> This is starting to get worse. A few days ago, fuel protests started out in the UK, where farmers and truck drivers decide to block all of the petrol from the oil refineries. This hasn't spread to my home town quite yet, but judging from Stagecoach the situation is so much in decline that we'll all have to cycle to school - which for me is 10 miles away through woods and hills. Not fun.
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> There have also been local protests about the state of the bus services around here. The old cliché "You spend ages waiting for a bus to arrive and three come along at once" has been proven to be true. If only they were MY bus...
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> Chr"I hate Stagecoach"ico


Ok, it's time to get creative. I'm sure you know that walking a mile a day, or cycling ten miles will get you fit in a hurry, but when I read the part about "through woods and hills," I realized that what you need is a moped or motorscooter. It won't do much for fitness, but you could really enjoy the trip to school.
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