howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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New timetables are up at some bus stops ready for the changes that start tomorrow, the fun will start on Monday morning when the drivers will be blamed.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Yes we had ours up here in River yesterday.Dont blame the drivers.Our Councillors are not very forth coming with Information.I had an email from Stage Coach yesterday.No photo calls ..
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,980
In Deal, our Tourist Information, as of Friday, have been sent exactly zero copies of any of the the new timetables.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
My nearest bus stop still has the old timetables and returning from town I discovered that 101/102 times had changed. So rather than wait 20 minutes I walked back down the Folkestone Road and the stops along there had no timetables at all so someone had gone to the trouble of taking down the old ones but not replacing with new ones.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
The Stagecoach website is pretty hopeless. If you put in the route number it gives two sets of timetables, old and new on the same pages, but not in the form they usually appear. Given the time they've had to prepare for this, it's verging on hopeless!
Lew Finnis
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
Howard, given that temporary versions of the new timetables have been on the website for weeks, I'm surprised you hadn't downloaded them!
Lew Finnis
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
People are up in arms over these changes as printed timetables are not yet available from the office or on buses.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
And so they should be .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
It gets better the bus stop in Market Square still shows only the 68 stopping there leaving a few mystified people when a 62 pulled up earlier
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
DreadfulNo one speaks to the other.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
Stagecoach are promising that the proper timetables will be on the website by 11th June. Only 10 days late......
Has anyone checked the bus stops? I've been up the other end of the county today so haven't had a chance to look.
Lew Finnis
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
computer print outs on the Aycliffe bus stop. that's the one next to the taxi office.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I suspect that KCC have already made their minds up and this consultation will make no difference.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/rural-bus-service-cuts-back-on-agenda-184069/howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Whilst on the subject of unprofitable rural bus services here is a good example of people getting together and running their own.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/rural-town-austerity-buses-witneyGuest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
There are quite a number of community-run services around the country. There has been one in Kent (at Meopham) for around 40 years. In fact in some areas there have been issues where they are taking contracts away from established operators, whereas they are only supposed to plug gaps.
Lew Finnis
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
There are quite a few concerned protest groups popping up throughout kent
I understand theres a public meeting in Dover town hall on 19th June 1900 to 2100 to discuss the buses.
The 10 bus ashford to Folkestone which I use every day, use to leave my stop 1905 connect with 2005 folk to dover
in new timetable it now leaves 1920 goes via golden valley and terminates at Tesco's cheriton at 2020 thus I now miss bus
Thisis the new improved service catering for all??
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
part of the governments master plan to get people back in there cars
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
I’ve been going through the new timetables for the villages on the old 89 route in some detail, as well as the 15 Dover-Canterbury route. It now turns out that if you change buses at either the Lydden Bell on the 92A or the Railway Bell on the 92 and then pick up the next 15 service in either direction, you can reach either Dover or Canterbury in 40 minutes from Eythorne. This compares with 50 minutes to Dover on the 92/92A or over an hour to Canterbury on the old 89 service. I just feel sorry for all the folk in Nonington who will now have to walk two miles in any direction to catch any bus at all outside school times. The final nail in the coffin for the Royal Oak I think.
Keith, you might consider going via Canterbury as it seems quicker than via Folkestone most of the day. Or if your time is valuable to you, take the train instead!