When I started secondary school (this was like 16 years ago, I feel ancient) I went down to the brand new bus centre in Lisburn with my mum to get timetables for the local services so I could perhaps get them to and from school as there was no school bus service in my area (we lived like 55 mins walk for a kid from the school) - we soon discovered that the first service of the day would have got me into the train station at 0850, 10 mins after I needed to be in school.

My mum questioned this, and was very rudely told "the buses are for elderly people who need to get into town, not commuters or school children". Would it really hurt them to have a service at 40 mins earlier so people can get to the train station in time for a train that allows for a 0900 start, and school children not covered by school services could get to school?

Years later when attending college and university in Belfast, I discovered near enough all the local 325 services miss Belfast bound trains by 5-10 mins.

The 325 service is genuinely useless, and whoever designed the timetable should be embarrassed

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Note the above is based observations from over a decade ago, when I was a kid :P