I went to the electronic machine to check when the next bus was due, and put in my destination.

The local website bus finder website does that. I use it to check the times, I already have a good idea of bus numbers.

It regularly routes you on several buses, and has for 4 years. One example takes you from A to B with a change of bus that uses the later roads as A2B and terminates in the same bus station. Leaving you without shelter for 20 minutes, instead of in the station with a drink and warm. A revenue extender for the spnsoring bus companies!

Aylesbury is no better, their electronic timetable shows a discrepency of 5 mins to the paper one. I got my drink and missed the bus, the drivers' cabin insisted the bus went out on time. You couldn't tell them what was wrong, they wouldn't listen. Not there job mate!

You can tell the bus companies, and the local authority, but they just shuttle the problem back and forth.

I shudder to rely on smart phone apps. Always using the penultimate bus home.

There is always the car - which is what I intend doing in rural Wales. because it is even less familiar territory. If the Gov is serious about climate change, this is one area of reducing car usage that is paid merely lip service.