Recent content by Thin man

FIrst Service 40 is Saturday only (D&G only run Mon-Fri.) First Service 9 is Sundays and Evenings when D&G dont run. All according to the timetables on bustimes.org anyway

At least I can use what I save on bus fare towards my taxi home after First Potteries latest cuts!!!

The problem being once you take the services away and relaunch them with a gap you have lost a lot of your potential passengers who have found alternatives in the meantime. Also whereas you cannot blame councillors/ government for First's decision one does wonder why the timescales have slipped...

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/top-transport-minister-announces-30m-8533192 Given the recent First Potteries announcements on service cuts a slightly ironic article has apoeared on Stoke Sentinel website (link above) telling us about the bus improvements the Bus...

New timetables are now available on the First Potteries website under the forthcoming tab. Interestingly they are now taking back over the Sunday journeys on the 23 which D&G have dropped.

These timetables beg the question - what has happened tp the BSIP (bus service improvement plan) funded enhancements referred to in the posts above? These should have started from 1st July so why are services being allowed to decline further? I personally travel in the evening on the 25 and 6...

All it really does is makes the bus service unviable to use for the working person (ie those that pay the fares) and only just about useful for ENCTS holders doing a bit of shopping. What happened to the Stoke on Trent bus service improvement plan (BSIP) that should have improved things? That...

"Pay now by contactless" scrolling on the side display of all first potteries buses. So you cant see the destination of the bus on the side

A D&G bus caught fire on the 94 this morning glad nobody was hurt https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/local-news/busy-staffordshire-road-blocked-after-2914228?fbclid=IwAR1PDabMmgccdSAwQrJ14yHjUCwPLOLlCTQgFB500aDL52m-WKJv9grHUec

Bentilee was served by 18 buses per hour (with the 1/2/26/a being every 10 mins)+ extra bits and bobs from things like the 80 pre the ill fated july 2014 network recast even with some competing services from bakers at one point. Shows how far the services have been cutback.

D&G have now also registered a sunday and bank holiday 11/11b. To partly compensate for firsts sunday cutbacks on bentilee.

More first potteries changes (cutbacks) from 2nd June https://www.firstgroup.com/potteries/news-and-service-updates/planned-changes

The £6 day ticket price started in Nov 2017. So not very far away with the inflation comparison.

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First potteries still giving change at the mo despite what the website may say. Just another thing to put people off using their services