Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Does that mean the managers in Dover are just not fighting there corner?
Or Stagecoach just doesn't care about Dover?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I think they have been overwhelmed with complaints
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
As I've mentioned before, older buses (mainly fully depreciated) lower the accounting costs, so make routes 'cheaper' to run - which means that services that would otherwise be withdrawn or reduced survive. It's interesting that once the old Olympians had to be withdrawn because of disability laws, the routes they were used on (87/88/89 mainly) have borne the brunt of the cuts.
On a totally different matter, Stagecoach can, of course, argue that they have responded to requests for better access to Buckland Hospital from a wider area!
Lew Finnis
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes you could see their idea re access to the Health Facility,but now it's harder to get to Kent and. Canterbury for River people .Its a big upheaval for the few who want access to what is not a hospital.People who need to travel to work,access to schools and the elderly forced to sit on buses longer to get their shopping .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Not well thought out
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Post 31: I also remember the good old days, when a bus had a proper livery - not the blue, red and amber you see now!
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I understand the buses from town to River are so full that school children are being left behind.The double deckers are not being used.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
More complaints the 81 broke down so some children had to walk at the end of the school day
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Lots on Kent on line re bus service .
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
My carer went to Sandwich by bus yesterday. Different numbers. Different routes. Much confusion (including driver)!
For God's sake it's 2017!
Surely the bus company could feed some spotty autistic school leaver tech-monkey enough pizza to produce one of these app thingies so we could have a fighting chance of knowing where and when we can wave our 'free' travel passes?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Stagecoach seem to be alienating drivers and passengers alike. My main service the 68 has had a core group of 6 drivers since they won back the contract over 3 and a half years ago. 9 round trips a day are covered by two drivers and continues thus over three days with the odd one coming in due to sickness or holiday. A week before the new timetables came in(not affecting this route) the drivers were told that everything was changing and drivers would not have so many regular runs. The drivers were most upset as one said to me "everyone seems to know everyone by name and know what time they will travel and it is a friendly atmosphere"
We now have different faces every day and the drivers don't seem that happy about it so nobody has benefited by the changes.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Howard;
your right, that's the spirit of a bus service
also stagecoach has had so many complaints
hopefully they will rethink
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
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Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
I imagine there will be some tweaks (as with the new 80B) to deal with problems identified as the new timetables bed in but I cannot see any significant changes being made unless the new network proves unworkable from Stagecoach's point of view. It's purely a matter of economics - no doubt the issue with the 68's drivers is to do with 'greater efficiency'. As I've said before, it's a neat exercise in scheduling; pity about the passengers!
Lew Finnis
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
It seems strange with the Diamonds no longer going through River.Just walked to
the local co-op.A young couple waiting with small child provably new pupil to River school, when I returned some thirty minutes later still no bus .Poor little chap makes it a long school day .I have lived here nearly fifty years never had such a bad service . No regular drivers we used to get the same drivers week at a time no more.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
bus services have hit rock bottom,probably be turned into idustriel units in the next 18 months if ms gload has her wicked way.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
So many people moaning about the new cutback service
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
What have you done my friend .Have you contacted your County Councillors ?.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
Sue Nicholas wrote:What have you done my friend .Have you contacted your County Councillors ?.
Here they are. Let's all actually get them doing something for their £15,000 a year (plus expenses).
https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=831"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
(Not my real name.)