Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
what does that run down to bus cuts.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Brian Dixon wrote:what does that run down to bus cuts.
Nobody other than KCC know at this stage Brian, they will wait for the heat to die down as they know attention spans are limited. A good example is a health authority taking away an important service saying it is for a year, but of course it never returns and people have forgotten about the promise.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Regent coaches are advertising for full and part time drivers, could be they have struck lucky with KCC over new contracts.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
So KCC have had to back down on cutting a service which cost less than 0.01% of their budget and was guaranteed to alienate a high percentage of the electorate.
Just how stupid are these people. Why pick a fight over it in the first place?
Do none of them read Sun Tzu?
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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: 23,931
A lot of infirm, Senior citizens and young will be happy
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
Nowt as blind as those who wont see,
especially those who refuse to see beyond their allowance increase
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
There will be many confused people in Folkestone with some routes cut, some added and others rerouted. Two relatively simple changes to the ones involving Dover.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/20-folkestone-bus-routes-being-1524992Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
New timetables are on the Stagecoach website - if you can find them! Click on the Promos and Offers link and there's a further link in there. No sign of the Dover ones yet but as Ashford appeared yesterday and Folkestone today, Dover can't be far behind. At least if you get the 91, you'll visit some parts of Folkestone you never knew existed!
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Looks to me very similar to the service now Dover/Deal. Four routes in Folkestone have been axed but users of those buses will not wait any longer than they do now. Double deckers doing the longer journeys will do a milk run to pick up passengers meaning that journeys overall will take longer for most people.
I eagerly await any new Dover changes.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
Howard, you can actually work out the Dover changes from the Traveline timetables. I did list them in a post on a different 'Buses' topic recently. In short, 62 extended to Market Square after the a.m. peak; 61 cut to half-hourly on Monday to Friday afternoons after 1430; 80 and 81 swap routes between Dover and Deal; 12 and 90 both change by around half an hour; 15 times change but no change in frequency; 91 given a long diversion and extension in Folkestone, with new timings; 89 and 89A replaced by 92 and 92A between Dover and Elvington - through service to Aylesham goes except at school times.
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Lew Finnis
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
As anticipated, Dover changes there today.
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Good news about the 62 serving Market Square every 20 minutes daytime, passengers travelling the full journey on the 91 will need to take a flask and sandwiches with them, Elvington and Eythorne chaps and chappesses will be happy with their lot.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Stagecoach have no regard for the travelling public.Some River people have been going to Folkestone on the 91 as we lost our Canterbury service now it will take longer to,get to .Folkestone .I think the Deal service 90 Has time changes.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Am I the only one getting fed up with the continual moans about the River bus service.
If Sue lived in the rural areas with their abysmal service then the moans would be entirely justified.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The way I am reading it the frequency of the 91 including River is increasing with a slightly longer journey time so I think most River residents will be happy.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
A tourist gets lost and finds himself in River. He accosts a local and says "Excuse me madam, please can you tell me how I get to the nearest town?" Back comes the reply "Well sir, if I were you, I wouldn't start from here!" Boom-boom.
(Not my real name.)
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
#258..…..I know of one resident who won't be happy!
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
River still gets a bus to town every 20 minutes - though I would hate to guess how reliable they will be. 91 frequency hasn't changed but I think there are a couple of 'shorts' to cover where there would otherwise be gaps in 90 or 92.
Lew Finnis
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Howard the 91 has not increased in frequency .One an hour .Stagecoach have had over eight months and the service here is worse than it was before.Saturday afternoon shopping in Dover is a no Go We may have a twenty minute service to Dover but we still have to go round StRadigunds .There are less shops in Dover now and with Marks and Superdrug relocating to St James nothing appeals .A lot of river bus users have returned to driving so much for cutting down on pollution.I thought we were being encouraged to use buses.
Whatever happened to agenda 21.and the quality Bus Partnership .Jan ok for you bus to Pencester and buses to Canterbury three an hour.
