Bus not stopping - should I report it

[Tom B]

It also depends on the information it's given about driver changes. Sometime the schedule says the change will occur at the end of the route but in practice the drivers go to the garage and back which if the bus starts off down the route makes the system think the next scheduled journey has started early.

That would explain it - I believe that, on the service 91, the driver who's finishing drives back to the depot and they change over there - due to the location of the depot and the terminus this entails driving down the route for part of the way.

 

[Martin1988]

I bet this wasn't First was it?

That's quite good of em to send the bus back for you.

No it wasn't First, it was South Gloucestershire Bus and Coach. I may be being unfair but the time when the driver didn't stop for me, he had no other passengers on board so I personally reckon he was trying to save the bother of having to go all the way to Yate for one person. They also had one of their 49 seater coaches from the NX fleet on the route so I reckon that by finishing quickly this would have released the vehicle to be used on something else if required. That evening I was simply told the 581 would be along shortly and to catch that home instead.

The time when the bus was sent back there was another passenger waiting at the bus stop with me and a handful of other passengers on board so that day the driver had to go all the way to Yate. One of the buses from the fleet was also being used on the route that night.