Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
waste of time contacting the afore said person,dose nothing for the asking.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
Some bright spark has sent a double decker on the 90 route made it as far as Coombe valley, luckily the driver wasn't one of the idiots that tries it anyway!
Arte et Marte
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
That is a very old picture (4 years ago?) - the registration of the bus and the fact that is shows 15 is a bit of a giveaway!
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
At the back of my mind I seem to remember that happening when there was a diversion in place River/Kearsney area.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yeah kearsney railway bridge.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
It was 3 or 4 years ago weren't there 2 who did it within a few months of each other?
As I say luckily today's driver realised and stopped I think he was waiting for a replacement to be sent out to transfer passengers or waiting to put them on an 89.
Arte et Marte
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Quite right Captain .If they had to sit on a bone shakes which doesn't go direct toRiver and also
all those other residents who take ages toget to some of the villages they might be entitled. To the extra money they awarded themselves.I shall not cease in sending them emails .
I carried two bags of shopping home as I have now cut down on the trips I make to Dover .In Coombe Valley Road HGV s parked I think i counted three ,Two more coming towards us and we had to wait Should not be parked there.
KCC Councilors from Head Teacher you will travel daily for one week on buses and then perhaps you will do something
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Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
The incident in the picture was a new driver who should have started the journey at Temple Ewell trying to go straight to River. There are, of course, two reasons DDs can't be used on 89 and 90 - the other one's at Coombe Valley Road!
Lew Finnis
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,818
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Bearing in mind the cuts to services in Dover Town on Saturday afternoon I checked the timetable at my local stop for the 63. The normal 20 minute frequency carries on until around 3 pm then runs at 25 - 30 minute intervals which is hardly likely to inconvenience anyone. The school services are still causing the most angst.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
lots of issues 89 bus whitfield to Dover few andf ar between to name but a few issues
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
How did you get on with the petition .Any answers yet .I was on radio Kent on Tuesday .
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
I must say that my career and myself had a wonderful day out in Hastings (no change of bus from Dover) last Sunday.
Parked for free opposite bus stop in Pencester early morning and first on the new double-decker to get the front seat on the top so I could pretend to be driving! Free wi-fi, free trip and plenty of time to read the Sunday papers having waved our old person's pass
Hastings was buzzing with DFLs, High Street packed and loads of time to explore the town with an excellent lunch in the Jedward Gallery (it's nice to see youngsters interested in art) after viewing the Quentin Blake exhibition.
Highly recommended.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
How does that work for an ex maths teacher? do you hop up on a soap box and start reading out algebraic tables!
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
I can assure you Reg, my career went West many years ago!
Bloody auto-correct! True story. I was Head of Maths in a rather run down school not in the district.
Walking through the office I noticed a whole pile of letters for the kids to take home, all beginning 'Dear Parent or Career'.
(It was the sort of intake where many had chosen to ruin their children's opportunities by choosing single parenthood, breaking up with the father of their offspring or having such chaotic lives that the little buggers were in foster homes so many of the poor sods were actually going home to careers).
The Head said let the letters go out as they were. It was unlikely that anyone would read them, never mind about notice the mistake.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
Sue
lots of people signed good day in pencester
just looking at next stage
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
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Guest 2133- Registered: 18 Jun 2017
- Posts: 5
Old persons pass is not free. (Concession Pass). You scan it so the journey is logged, And the Council/ Government reimburse the the operating company out of tax payers contributions. (Council Tax).
Nothing is free in this world, No matter how old you are.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
nigel wrote:Old persons pass is not free. (Concession Pass). You scan it so the journey is logged, And the Council/ Government reimburse the the operating company out of tax payers contributions. (Council Tax).
Nothing is free in this world, No matter how old you are.
The journey is not logged, when people scan their pass it could be for just one stop or Bob and his "career" going all the way to Hastings.
Furthermore users have paid with their taxes for the best part of 40/50 years to get this concession, so not a freebie.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,971
nigel wrote:Old persons pass is not free. (Concession Pass). You scan it so the journey is logged, And the Council/ Government reimburse the the operating company out of tax payers contributions. (Council Tax).
Nothing is free in this world, No matter how old you are.
I'm truly shocked Nigel. I never realised that's how it worked.
God I feel guilty.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Arte et Marte