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Love or hate Souter the man took chances .I remember seeing Stagecoach buses in Kenya ,Zambia,Mozambique Malawi and Zimbabwe .Business is about taking oppoturnities.The NBC was a basket case.Apart from Lothian , Reading and Blackpool.The other municipals are complemented bu the private sector...

The UK control centre is supposed to coordinate things when they go wrong.They should have coach operators willing to do the work at short notice .An operation that size should have its own team of controllers

Flixbus does not have a dedicated control room.

Summed it up no one thought about a newcomer getting big depots in Manchester.Its easy on paper but local knowledge and one size fits all does not work everywhere.I hope other regions wont make the same mistake

Politicians plead poverty them waste money on crackpot ideas.

Thats one thing Flixbus need to improve on breakdowns .They just cancel the service one thing National Express and Megabus will always try to get you even late.

These are different scenarios .How many hours do train drivers work per shift.My missus starts at 7pm and finishes at 7am .I doubt any train driver works those sort of hours .

For the big towns it will work what of the rural areas .Thats where the main problem is.Do you think people who live in Cambridge care about what goes beyond the borders no.

Start Hill does have a few agency drivers.On the issue of spare drivers thats long gone .Very few contractors have a large pool of drivers apart from Edwards and Stagecoach maybe .

The Mayor wont be seeking re election .I would have liked it for him to finish his project.

I always confuse the 2 1739058323 Franchising is not a licence to print money.It removes the risk and lumps it on the taxpayer.

Stagecoach will run the Jersey buses from April i think

Some of the drivers were loan drivers from the Stagecoach empire.They did not fancy carrying on .Metroline is limited in where it can get extra drivers apart from London and Cardiff.

The last new buses for Stevenage were the 11 plate Volvos for the 100/101 .Everything has been cascades

One was for sale in Birmingham a few weeks ago.

Totally agree but most managers in the bus industry dont give a toss.I remember one time a depot was closing they wanted to wait for the consultation to start but word leaked out when manager suddenly left .He spilled the beans and we all left en mass

There is a shortage of fitters countrywide.Most bus companies are operating on agency fitters on fixed contracts and local to their area.

Who owns it now

Return tickets are not wortth it anymore .A day ticket is cheaper in some places.For the West Midlands zone a day ticket at £4.80 for nbus and £5 for an outer zone .

National Express West Midlands has double decker buses.You can have all the technology but it all comes down the driver. As an example when we started using triaxle coaches the amount of rear end damage we had was shocking.It was just drivers used to single axle coaches.