My email inbox is full to bursting with press releases containing statistics on everything from what most people want for Valentine’s day (dinner, apparently) to the number of people who find their washing machine too noisy (33%). I don’t hold much truck with surveys but this one I couldn’t resist.
Remember that chewing gum ad with the rocking soundtrack by Free and the implausible love story? Well, new survey results have demonstrated that it could be closer to truth than fiction. Buses are now recognised as one of the best places to find romance! A poll by First Bus, which surveyed 3,000 people in the UK, has found that in many UK cities more people find love on the bus than through online dating sites or on holiday. Topping the lists of places where a bus ride is likely to lead to love is Wolverhampton with 13% of people finding a partner on public transport. Passengers on the buses in Belfast, Newcastle, Brighton and Bristol are also likely to get lucky.
Notably, of those surveyed, 59% of men (34% women) said they’d previously spotted someone they fancied on a bus, with 36% of men (19% women) saying they had flirted with a member of the opposite sex during a journey (that figure can also be taken as 15% of women getting cheesed off at unwanted attention from the opposite sex). And for those who went on to ask someone out (23% men, 9% women) 4% of those tentative travelling enquiries led to marriage. Marriage hotspots (percentage of people who married following a meeting on a bus/at a bus stop) are: Aberystwyth, Norwich, Glasgow, Oxford and Wolverhampton.
So if you are looking for love, take the environment into consideration, get on the bus and you might just meet the fellow greenie of your dreams. Happy travelling!
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