Recent content by mikeg

As @OscarH says will be interesting to see how it pans out with the present reservation system but a system of flexing the price per day makes sense. Race day in York? It’s more expensive. Rainy Tuesday with nothing happening? Cheaper. As long as the current anytime remains, a roughly even...

They may be timetabled to have a 3-4 minute wait but in practice it’s usually 5 or more as the bus runs early as of around Deighton or the south of Fulford (depending on direction). I’m also unsure why everything has to be the same every hour? Surely this is a waste of capacity?

This is a large part of it : offal needs to maintain a core temperature of no more than 3c according to my food hygiene training whilst others can be stored in environs of 5c and the core temperature go up to 8. Add to that the short shelf life and cost of wastage (for each unit of stock...

Regarding the 415 service changes it’s ridiculous. The dwell times at the designer outlet are already over conservative and even with the current timing points can result in waiting 5 minutes +. Also what happened to notice being given? A few days notice is not enough for the travelling public...

I personally do blame people for self evacuating as they are not only putting their own safety in grave danger but causing huge amounts of disruption for others. I don’t see why they aren’t prosecuted. If you can be prosecuted for accidentally having the wrong ticket, you can and should be...

Far too many to mention in North Yorkshire, some of the most pointless town services have been done away with, which could easily be walked or wheeled by almost anyone in 2014ish. I'm thinking Norby to Thirsk Market Place. There are however plenty that remain that run once or twice a week at...

Please, not more forcing of journey planners on passengers who just want a damn ticket.

I'd be interested to hear how this played out in the end?

Once again the compulsory reservation brigade are ignorant of contract law and are happy to take subsidy but not provide a public service. Sounds like a typical post-2020 UK TOC. The loctivists have a lot to answer for, there seem to be authoritarian solutions for everything now. As you say...

This'll be a nice little earner: In addition to sotpping the short farers, they'll get to penalty fare people genuinely just bombing into town who expect to open their e-ticket when the inspector comes, but just get a collection code instead. Can I ask which origin/destination pairs are being...

I'd be all for it, we need to move to only a reserve a seat if you really want it instead of, you'll have a reservation whether you like it or not and we'll pretend the train is 'sold out', if we can't find you the same seat to reserve for the whole of your journey. The first is the norm in...

Given that my bladder was removed and I have a urostomy bag that’s clearly a ridiculous suggestion

This is simply not good enough. Those passengers were expecting toilets and some of us have conditions which mean that we can’t go more than a couple of hours without going. Where do passengers such as myself stand as to ticketing? Surely reasonable adjustments need to be made?

The 159 Hodgsons service shows Lightwater Valley, adj car park but can't from memory remember whether it goes onto the property. Sure used to. On the theme park subject, Transdev Coastliner used to run services actually into Flamingo Land but it appears now they all just call at Kirkby Misperton...

The 153 from Thirsk to Northallerton has a reverse in Thornton Le Beans, up a driveway of some description (either that or just a narrow road) iirc. Possibly near The Crosby?