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He wasn't called Moir Blockhead for nothing.

Edinburgh to Carlisle is much further than Edinburgh to Stirling. But it's much longer per mile for the Edinburgh to Stirling bus.

And will the 38 be split with the Falkirk to Stirling section becoming the 60A e.g. or an extension to the 62/63 if First lose the Scotrail contract? 2 hours 40 from Stirling to Edinburgh on the same bus is quite a trek.

It will cost a lot more to convert those double door tridents and T to V reg flolines to meet the DDA than to replace them with same number of 7 to 10 year old ones cascaded in that do meet the DDA requirements. "This is not a door" on the centre door looks unprofessional. And any mid life...

Edinburgh to Dundee on the X54 and then Dundee to Aberdeen on the X7. And then return. But is it really doable for a good day out?

It's ridiculous that ones with the centre doors still intact can get cascaded around. The centre doors outwith London don't ever get used as an exit. A barrier superglued to the door with a message which reads "This is not a door" is truly awful. And many have been unrefurbished with the...

Just hope they put some padding on the seats of those V, W and X reg tridents if they intend to upgrade them. Hard seated buses are awful to travel on. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Those red seated solars really need to be refurbished with far more comfortable retrimmed...

Solos and streetlites even with an extra bus per hour frequency must be cheaper to run than mix of 8 to 15 year old full size single deckers and 15 to 18 year old double deckers.

Falkirk Bus Station to Edinburgh terminus the middle of nowhere is 1 hr 25 to 1 hr 40 depending on time of the day which is far slower than the suburban stopping train from Grahamston to Edinburgh. The train only takes 35 minutes. 1 hour 40 on the same bus from Falkirk to Edinburgh is...

I don't know when it became acceptable for bus companies to operate long distance routes with firm seated buses instead of coaches or buses with proper padded seats.

If A zone area passengers buy a First4week ticket through M ticketing or a FirstYear ticket online then a return Glasgow on the Stagecoach X27 from the hospital in Larbert it would be a cheap day out. St Andrews, Leven and Kirkcaldy are good days out as well. It's only one change of bus at...

But it's surely not going to replace the old methods of paying the driver and paypoint. How about concessionary passes? Surely they aren't going to have to scan their pass via mobile phone.

Will the M tickets offer through singles or through returns that involve a change of buses like with the trains. There are some old route been split in my area. Does Bo'ness to Glasgow ( the old 37) still offer through journey tickets anyway regardless of a possible through M ticket?

Just because you live in South Queensferry and Kirkliston doesn't mean you are fully entitled to the pay the same fare charged everywhere else in the M zone just because you live in the Edinburgh Council area.

Bo'ness will only have Falkirk Wheel/Tamfourhill/Camelon Ochiltree or Langlees as destinations in the destination blinds very soon the way things are going. Express via the M9 on the X19 is better than going via Polmont, Linlithgow, Bridgend Village, Threemiletown, Winchester, Kirkliston and...

Everybody who predicted that the Alloa to Stirling and Airdrie to Bathgate lines would result in poor usage figures were made to look stupid when usage figures on both lines shot through the roof and have since remained high. The same will happen with the Waverley line that usage figures will...

He isn't called Sir Moir Blockhead for nothing.

Some bus companies that once used coaches on distance bus routes now use standard single decker buses with bus seats on the very same routes. There's no guarantee now if you travel a long distance that you will be travelling by coach. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Coaches do...

It's going to become a real pain for First when they have to provide an all low floor services with a wheelchair ramp - Some of the cascaded V and W reg Scanias around here had the ramp and disabled logo sticker but the ramps were removed and the disabled logo sticker peeled off. But those...

Nobody is willing to stay on the same stopping service bus for 1.5 or 2 hours nowadays - with the bus going all around the houses, zig zagging and the being on the road 100 yards away from where it was 10 minutes ago e.g. - to get from A to B if they are aware there's a significantly faster...