Has anyone else tried a week long bus ticket ?
We don't have a car and use the buses all the time to get around the Lake District. The weekly tickets are the best value for people coming on holiday for a week to the Lake District if they will be using the buses everyday. I think you can get a 3 day pass as well. I get the monthly recurring payment bus pass, £104 a month. The bus timetable at the moment is the winter timetable, there will be more buses in the summer; that timetable begins in early April I think.
Unless the bus service becomes more convenient for car users to use, people will still continue to use their cars, if I had a car I doubt I would use the buses unless I was going wild camping. The bus service is a commercial venture and walks have to be carefully planned around the bus timetables. The people who create the timetables are obviously not walkers.
Feat not, the LDNP have the answer
Driverless pods from Threlkeld to Keswick and a cable car from Thornthwaite to Whinlatter Centre
Yes I can see how this will improve the congestion in the Lake District and get people using public transport...not.