Buses
- 8 January 2019 19:26353276Been noticing a lot of "not in service" buses using Melbourne Avenue/Green Lane/Brookfield Avenue/Old Park Road as a route to get from their depot to the town.
I would think it would be much easier and quicker to go down Whitfield Hill and Crabble Hill than having to negotiate every chicane, roundabout and junction on the former route.
This tends to start very early in the mornings between 5 and 6 I would say. - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
19 January 2019 14:20353673 - 19 January 2019 16:19353679Link is not working for me Brian, I presume it was about this?
Priory Street Bus Stops Closed
19 Jan 2019
From Sunday 20th January for up to 2 weeks we will be unable to serve Priory Street
During this closure our services will be diverted as follows
61 and 68 services will use the bus stop on York Street and not go to Priory Street at all
63 services will leave Priory Station turning left at the roundabout, along Ladywell and then into stop D in Pencester Road
All other services will serve Pencester Road as normal just missing out Priory Street. - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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19 January 2019 16:41353680Mirabile dictu (the only phrase I can remember from Georgics IV in GCE Latin!) Stagecoach seem to have a half reasonable SmartPhone APP.
All we now need is transponders on buses so we can have bus arrival information at bus stops in real-time like most of the rest of the country and we will truly have entered the present century."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 19 January 2019 17:13353681Buses that don’t break down Bob
- 19 January 2019 17:15353682Unfortunately many of the older bus users would not know what a Smart Phone App is when it's at home so a more basic method of communication is needed for them. I only the noticed the small sign this morning telling of the change. Unfortunately most people won't know until they find the bus stop out of service on Monday then it is a matter of getting to York Street too late to catch the bus and having to wait an hour for the next one.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
19 January 2019 17:42353685correct howard. - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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19 January 2019 17:43353686Sue Nicholas wrote:Buses that don’t break down Bob
Sue, you will always have buses which break down, just as you have cars or trains which break down.
We should also have the ability to disseminate information about any hold-ups/cancellations/replacement services almost instantaneously to the customers so they can work around them with minimum inconvenience.
I remember when trying to teach Yr9 at a local Secondary School (NOT the Grammar) about the 24 hour timetable I took in a load of the small railway timetables you can pick up at the station. At the end of the lesson the idea of finding out which trains they would have to catch to get to an interview at Canterbury for 09.00 departing from Deal remained, and still I suspect remains, as impossible to do as Higher Calculus.
Not to worry. When exasperated I asked them how, since they can't read a timetable, they would get to an interview in Canterbury they told me they would just take their car so that's all right then.
SmartPhones are now fairly ubiquitous and the Apps easily navigable.
As Arthur C Clarke famously said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" and we are getting pretty damned close."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 9 February 2019 09:06354315I never realised that nearly half of all bus services are subsidised by local authorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47182101 - 9 February 2019 09:52354317Yes they are.I don’t use the buses very often now.Once a week maybe .No pleasure.They made it such a difficult journey going via St Radigunds takes twice as long to get to Dover.
- Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
9 February 2019 12:08354322Unfortunately this is true in many areas thus the usage goes down
Next step cut busses out as not usedALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 9 February 2019 12:57354330You are right Keith.I see the buses go through River one maybe two at certain times of the day no passengers and those going on to Eythorne or Folkestone none.The Deal Bus is busier because it goes via Tesco and Deal has Marks and Spencer It only takes ten minutes longer than going to Dover..
- 9 February 2019 13:11354332Sue Nicholas wrote:The Deal Bus is busier because it goes via Tesco and Deal has Marks and Spencer It only takes ten minutes longer than going to Dover..
Not from April Sue. - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
9 February 2019 13:40354334lack of buses on routes due to time tables route changes. a cunning plan by bus companys and councils to cut costs. - 9 February 2019 13:45354335Yes that’s the game Brian.The Buses don’t go where we want to go .I think some people don’t use the bus and go every so often by taxi .On a Saturday I would go out on the bus trip into Dover or Canterbury.
- 16 February 2019 09:21354541A chance for us to tell KCC what we think of all bus services.
https://kccmediahub.net/kcc-introduces-new-bus-feedback-scheme745 - 16 February 2019 10:14354542Yes. Councillor Collor gave me that link waste of time .
- Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
16 February 2019 10:35354543Should go through the motions Sue
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Of course having N Collor fighting our corner like G Cowan would be better
but unlikelyALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 16 February 2019 11:04354544Yes Gordon would have fought for us .
- 22 April 2019 10:17356778A new broom at Stagecoach.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/business/new-boss-stagecoach-south-east-2783077