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    Advice regarding bus driver recruitment

    Bus companies carry out random drug tests so do not hide anything. It is up to the bus company whether to adopt a policy of accepting or not an employee on medication continuously or intermittently. Remember peoples lives are in your hands.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Seems the problem with the PIS is where they extract the destination from. The printed timetable for the Y1 quotes ' Chipping Sodbury, Wickwar Road ' and the PIS extracts the destination as ' WICKWAR ROAD '. For services between Wells and Bath the printed timetables would show ' Wells, Bus...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Did Johnny chips make it to Bristol Wednesday as he stated Tuesday or did the weather put him off ? 1597940350 FRYS TURKISH DELIGHT maybe !!!!
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    Stagecoach West - Fleet News & Discussion

    Hope Travelwest/Traveline/ WRECA get some publicity out about these changes as well as Stagecoaches own timetables.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Look out for the South Gloucestershire LYNK livery, in my eyes the most striking of the FWOE liveries at the present time on the T1/2, Y1/2/3/4/5/6 services. Have a good day.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    SO WHERE ARE OUR REAL TIME DISPLAYS, that is why I'm whining on about, SG provided the RTI displays for 40's routes around Kingswood area in SG but when I spoke up about the failings in the Yate/Sodbury Area when the 40's routes installations were announced all I got was a silent look of...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    I thought GBBN was a project funded by a central government grant award and not by individual councils revenue accounts ( ie council taxpayers money ) and basically bus stop specs were to be similar irrespective of in whose council area the stop was sited ( ie each stop will be provided with a...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    GBBN in the Yate / Sodbury area still awaiting completion. Briefly the GBBN project was to provide bus shelters and RTI displays at each stop on the selected routes of which the then 342 Bristol - Chipping Sodbury was one such route. I regularly attended the South Gloucestershire Councils...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    yes you can you can also buy a tale ticket which will allow travel on Buses of Somer set taking you Taunton and onto Minehead. Depends where you want to explore.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    An Avonrider will allow travel on any operators services if you intend travelling North say on the T1 to Thornburg then take the Stagecoach service to Wotton and back to Chipping Sodbury and either take the Stagecoach 620 to Bath to return to Bristol or return from Chipping Sudbury to Bristol on...
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    First Greater Glasgow

    Help please. I will be traveling to Glasgow Bailleston by rail to visit relatives but their residence is some distance from the rail station on a fairly new housing development on the site of the closed Zoo site at a place called Broomhill or Uddington but walking is painful for me. Directions...
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    Scottish Citylink

    IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT particularly IT systems.
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    Trivia: Small villages with a very frequent bus service

    Mayshill, between Coalpit Heath and Yate, pop less than 100, has 1 pub and 1 cemetery, has at least 6 buses per hour at present in both directions in main 0700 - 1900 hours window as follows, Y1 x 3, Y2, Y4 and Y6 all First Bus plus 2 hourly Stagecoach 86 and College 680 also Stagecoach.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    West of England Zone day ticket is valid to Airport on A2 but not A1 but as thats not scheduled to run till January you should have no problem. If you are using the A1 you can buy an Airport Flyer on your bus from your starting point (Bradley Stoke) to Central Bristol to connect with the A1...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    There a picture on twitter, 2 fire engines in attendance with fireman examining a discover bus. The picture seems to be taken from rail station
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    I noticed yesterday that all services yesterday in Yate that I saw had FACE COVERINGS MUST BE WORN displaying on the side destination.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    I thought the 2a was supposed to now serve Southmead Hospital bus station hence the routing down the whole length of Pen Park Road, well my informant is the very Bristol Bus Guru himself, David Redgewell.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Does any poster to this forum know what is happening with the m3 as all journeys from Emersons Green now are operated as an m3x. If the m3 does return in its previous form consideration should be given to operate some journeys as an m3x outbound in the morning peak and in the afternoon peak inbound.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Gosh that was quick, yes orange destination display on the front with the side and rear number display white, any reason, display package labelled white in error or mixed bag when kitting up units for installing at factory ? W
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Here is a little observation but no prizes for the first and correct observation. What makes gas bus 39459, South Glos liveried vehicle different to all the rest of the gas buses unless there is another with the same uniqueness.

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