I have just had it confirmed from my Member of the Senedd that public transport in Wales is still intended to be available only for the short list of essential journeys given by the Welsh Government.
There doesn't appear to be any expectation for this to end any time soon.
So that's official - if you follow government advice, no days out, visiting family, or booking a holiday this summer unless you have access to a car or can walk/bike.
I do understand the limitatations if you have to keep people 2 m apart. I also understand that a family travelling together will take up much less space than the same number of people spaced out at 2 m, and I still find it a little hard to understand why as services open up we still have to have a total ban on leisure travel even on services that have never had the sort of loadings that would cause a problem with people spaced out at 2 m.
It would also be nice if they didn't express this in the form:
"Can I use public transport? Yes - see here for the guidance"
And the guidance says
"Well actually, unless your journey is on this sort list of ones we consider essential, it's no"
There doesn't appear to be any expectation for this to end any time soon.
So that's official - if you follow government advice, no days out, visiting family, or booking a holiday this summer unless you have access to a car or can walk/bike.
I do understand the limitatations if you have to keep people 2 m apart. I also understand that a family travelling together will take up much less space than the same number of people spaced out at 2 m, and I still find it a little hard to understand why as services open up we still have to have a total ban on leisure travel even on services that have never had the sort of loadings that would cause a problem with people spaced out at 2 m.
It would also be nice if they didn't express this in the form:
"Can I use public transport? Yes - see here for the guidance"
And the guidance says
"Well actually, unless your journey is on this sort list of ones we consider essential, it's no"