tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post1896773884915054861..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Bemused by Ballinger Bottom (Bucks) [2]fatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-848823944310346212014-10-12T16:51:06.337+01:002014-10-12T16:51:06.337+01:00At the risk of stating the obvious, what happened ...At the risk of stating the obvious, what happened to the bus services to Ballinger (and indeed all the rural services in that part of Leafy Bucks) is twofold - regular bus user Mrs Scroggins has died, and her house has been purchased by Tarquin and Grizelda Aardvark-Clutterbuck, who have two Range Rovers for personal transport. They don't need the buses! There are various books (Capital Transport) that detail the decline, but one doubts if the (substantial) bus network in the area ever covered more than basic costs of operation since the 1950's, when increased numbers of people could afford cars.<br /><br />And the bus stop - wow - that's two, then! There used to be another at St Leonards (route 394 en route to Tring), but whether it's still there is unknown. Why the survival? Look at the pole . . . . . . it's of the telegraph variety, which occasionally has workpersons scampering up and down. Back in the distant 1970's, during the wholesale application of the standard NBC / DoT flags throughout the land, an early Elf'n person spotted that said workperson, if falling from said pole, would do themselves a bigger damage on a thinly-edged flag than the one illustrated, which is more rounded in construction. Accordingly, stickers to the approved design were stuck onto the flag, and thereby ensured the survival of the old-style stop.<br />I seem to recall that another survivor survives in Wraysbury.<br />greenline727https://www.blogger.com/profile/03033268278026535109noreply@blogger.com