Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
As still a fare paying passenger the latest hike in fares with the cutbacks is hard to justify
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
'On the Busses' - Maidstone Edition.
“On the good side at least they did not fit the electric timetables (as promised beforehand) because they have been ruined now as well.”
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/appalling-1-5m-bus-stop-is-mouldy-just-one-year-after-rev-278055/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64117338
The bus and train companies seem to be doing all they can to drive people into their cars, with higher fares together with less service and routes.
The government with all their so called knowledge try to push the public into using buses and trains rather than a car by making that way of travelling more expensive.
I wonder who will win, certainly not the public in either case.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
It appears Folkestone is to get 11 new buses?
For the buses later night buses would encourage more use, although I'm not convinced Stagecoach wants more , preferring to run the minimum.
Train prices are just pricing people out of traveling by train
Both put people back in cars
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,070
And yet...
'The Bus Fare Cap Grant scheme is a Government funded scheme being introduced on most single (including Child and Student) bus journeys across England from 1st January 2023 until 31st March 2023.'
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/national/2-pound-fare
After years of relentless downgrading, then scaring the bejesus out of passengers by kicking them off public transport because of a bug, then forcing them into face-nappies, thus giving them the opportunity to establish alternative habits of getting about, the 'government' and the operators wonder why folk don't want to use what's left of their decrepit system any more.
The Gov and John Buckley like this
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
This is a flat £2 single fare
Let's fill up them buses
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,544
Here's live bus map thingy. Not sure if it's of any use.
https://bustimes.org/map#15/51.129/1.301Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
It appears the take up on bus numbers has increased
Hopefully more evening buses rather than less would be good
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
Cuts to bus services on Sunday 12th Feb 2023… after 1820. Aycliffe gets cuts off from town we have no evening buses.
So people who work in the evening have no way of getting to or from work.. would anyone fancy walking up from town to Aycliffe in the evening along the A20. All this is save £33,000 pounds yet central government are spending millions on a fast track service only serving a small portion of Dover…
https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/136572/Summary-of-the-changes-to-bus-services.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0mx6ufxd6UXVhYzT-y4NqtSg1IL_iRrp7QkIbUPw12YC-C3Nf0FYKo8FACaptain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
See #35
"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
And they want to get people out of there cars Gary lol
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I have written several emails this morning.Its disgusting to cancel the evening services.How are people expected to get home after twelve hours shifts.I don’t thinkKCC members took a drop in their expenses ?.. ?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Time to run public transport in interest of passengers
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
Amazing to think after 1820 Aycliffe is cut of from town..
So Aycliffe residents without a car cannot get a bus to Whifield where the leisure Centre is.. it was built there for good public transport connections
Evening workers cannot get home have pay expensive taxis.. if you can get one..
More expense for a night out..
Children who families who do not have cars cannot get to their clubs.
Walking along the A20 by Megga is not good and if you are a single woman at night…
All for a saving of 33,000 pounds
Yet they can spend millions on electric buses and face track through prime farm land that only serves one part of Dover..
Sorry for the rant but Aycliffe gets a raw deal again.. So much for levelling up.. cannot even do it in our own town
Brian Dixon and The Gov like this
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes that effects River also.The people working in the two homes in River will have to either use taxis or walk .See my post 92.
I shall continue today to make representations .In River we have no buses to Whitfield .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I have just emailed our MP.Im sick of photo calls .The Fast Track Bus will not help the people of Dover.Fancy schemes such as Market Square will not help those who need housing .
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
Dover District Council
NEWS: Get onboard with the new on-demand bus service for Aylesham and the surrounding villages, including Eythorne, Elvington, Nonington and Shepherdswell
https://www.dover.gov.uk/News/Press-Releases/2023/Get-onboard-with-the-new-on-demand-bus-service-for-Aylesham-and-surrounding-villages.aspx"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Giving Aylesham folk the only destination of Fort Whitfield doesn't seem very on-demand. Good news if you like a trip out to KFC and Tesco's Extra I suppose
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
'The Demand Responsive Transport is being subsidised through Section 106 developer funding from the Aylesham Garden Village development, which will cover the service for three years. '
Presumably instead of providing a percentage of 'affordable housing' which would depress the price of houses built near them! Nice one.
"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
Looks like things are getting worse, and more people that can are forced into cars .
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