Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Lew is correct the 89a arrived in River over twenty minutes late today it's not fair on the people from Eythorne and Elvington who now have to travel via River and St Radigunds.One of the passengers advised me she was travel sick and she had been on the bus over an hour.The poor driver was glad to get to Pencester.It will be worse if we have snow this Winter.
I also tried to tell the managers it would not work
I will not go into the shifts the drivers have to cope with.Please don't blame the drivers they are doing a very difficult job.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
A small single decker bus has broken down in Pencester Road causing problems. The recovery vehicle with its equipment is taking up a lot of space meaning buses are having problems letting people off and on.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
I have emailed again today complaing re the new services .I did state the buses were so old and unreliable I feel sorry for the drivers doing the long routes round the villages then combining them
With town routes
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
The Solos are now 11 years old and have been causing problems for some time but there doesn't seem to be any sign of replacements yet.
Lew Finnis
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Today I shall be making noises in the right direction as there is an agreement has been signed between KCC ,DDC. And Stage Coach and from what the travelling public are experiencing that document is being ignored .New buses have been promised for some years now.Mind you it would help if Masion Dieu were resurfaced.Cllr Colllor promised six months ago he would sort it.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Quality Bus Partnership is the document to which I was referring.Note Quality .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Email sent
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Howard re post144 was it a stagecoach bus ?.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Certainly was Sue.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Do know the number and time please
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 62,352
About 12. 15 but no idea what number it was all the electrics were off.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Thanks Howard .Surely there was a controller there .The deputy manager cannot trace it ?.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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- Posts: 6,020
Yes they have now found the info .See the old Solos are past their best .Cllr Collor should be on the case .
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Even new buses break down! Modern vehicles are so full of electrics it doesn't take much to stop them.
Lew Finnis
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Thanks Lew modern ideas what's wrong with gear sticks and starting handles !!
Guest 2003- Registered: 10 Mar 2017
- Posts: 4
A solo broke down in my street the other week, it was there for what I'm sure was over an hour until the mechanic turned up to have a tinker, it drove off under it's own power a while later.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A double decker was still running on the 63 route at 11 am, must be a tricky drive through the narrow streets of Tower Hamlets with cars parked on corners.
Captain Haddock
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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
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Can local journalism get any worse? The headline says that all KCC bus services will be axed, the article goes on to say that 34 will remain.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Good to see that the 68 and 93 survived the cull but buses to the William Harvey and QEQM from places in the sticks didn't. School buses have taken another hit and surprisingly West Kent took the brunt.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"