[pjc50]

It's also miles better than most UK cities, which is occasionally a sore point. The rest of the country has to put up with Stagecoach buses which are less reliable at twice the price.

(Except Edinburgh, which also has publicly funded cheap buses)

[dazc]

London is an exception indeed. In most other cities it's a free for all between two or three companies, each with their own very poorly developed payment systems with little or no connectivity between them.

[corobo]

and in most towns it's a monopoly. Don't want to pay £4.20 to get into town and back? Walk.