Recent content by duncombec

The question to be asked here is "are they still good bus territory?" And even if passenger numbers are reasonable, what is access like (e.g. parked cars?). I will admit I haven't used these routes (bit too far away from me for a random housing estate tour), but has anyone commenting done so, to...

In Kent, Nu-Venture and GoBus (formerly Go-Coach) still produce printed timetables for non-school services, as do Kent Country/Fastrack (although the latter are notoriously difficult to get hold of).

It's part of a new batch of vehicles currently in delivery to Stevenage. Rather like the 400s at Ware which were originally expected at Maidstone, part of this batch was expected at Gillingham (the other part was for Stevenage, now the totality). There should be 18 in total.

Arriva Kent and Surrey serve Park Wood, near Maidstone, on the 82, and Parkwood, near Rainham, on the 132.

I don't think what you're describing is quite dynamic pricing, where the price changes according to demand at that moment (E.g. Uber's surge price). The rainbow fares were a simpler version of that, making peak journeys expensive and some against the flow journeys significantly cheaper, to...

Quite! A vehicle has appeared with the same advert at Tunbridge Wells, too, which suggests a wider-ranging tie-up.

I'd disagree, and say they are the very opposite of pointless: they do the job they are designed to do, taking passengers where they want to go! For the benefit of others who don't live in the area, the 1 is the "main" service along that stretch. The 2 is a short working to Dockside, and...

It's very tempting to divide it up into a plain "those that do and those that don't", or worse, "all teenagers at the same", but I think there are three groups at play: - Those who just don't cause trouble - Those who wouldn't normally cause trouble, but egged on by peer pressure, summer...

https://www.busandcoachbuyer.com/ceo-leaves-stagecoach-for-fa-board/

Is it still the case that there is no access to the Epping end of the Epping Ongar Railway? I think they've moved the platform since I last visited and it terminated at Coopersale. (note to self... EOR overdue a visit!)

It's not really clear from an outside picture, but could the window-covering part of the poster be contravision?

Isn't this because the second door counts as the emergency exit? After all, it's no different to the UK rules on a second exit, simply that we say ours should be on the offside (unless a second nearside door is fitted, as per London?).

Good points: I should perhaps have said may ultimately not be on the hook for anything, in the sense that anything claimed from Wright by Metrobus would form part of any subsequent dispute between Wright and the supplier.

They have been seen on testing in the midlands: judging from the comments to various Facebook posted by someone I believe to be in Metrobus management, the modifications have been completed but they need to run something like 5000 miles in test first. Naturally, given the incident, they want to...

I can only talk from my one experience of checks on buses in Germany, whilst travelling to a meeting in Kiel about 15 years ago. Whether they are still done this way, or whether it's common, I wouldn't like to say! I recall it well, because I was a little stressed from running late... and the...