What's your point?
I suspect that @Andyh82 is suggesting that there are certain posters who are more pre-disposed to point out Transdev's failings than any other firm, and having had an axe to grind for months or year, might be taking pleasure in the opportunity to highlight such deficiencies?
These gains help explain the arrival of ex-Nottingham E200s, then (according to WYIS (https://www.wyis.org.uk/), six so far with another nine to come)!
As a totally non-tea coffee drinker I must say that the cup looks very much like the one that I have my daily dose of arabica beans out of.
Fair point! Whenever I see beans I always think of the baked variety!
I travelled on the competing Connexions route on Friday (full report in the 'Trips' thread). There seemed to be plenty of passengers for both operators on these routes, at least when I was travelling. A few cancellations on Transdev though and three 'permanent' cancellations on the Connexions route.
staff shortage? I thought that was pretty much resolved now with driver tests starting again.
Thanks, just read your review - I see mention of some services being delayed due to traffic in Harrogate - it's an age-old problem! The 1/X1 is my local route and passenger numbers can vary a lot, often dependant on if there have been gaps in services/cancellations. The route suffers more than others with delays due to the level crossing at Starbeck. Personally, I see 10 buses an hour (6x Transdev and 4x Connexions - although Connexions reduce to 30 mins at times for driver breaks/buses going on schools) as being sufficient. For me, the problem has been in the evenings, when the service reduces to every 20 minutes with Transdev, and on two occasions I have suffered two consecutive buses being cancelled, meaning there's been an hour gap. Hopefully, the latest service reductions, which are the second to be implemented in recent months, will stop this happening.
How noticeable is a 10 minute frequency to passengers rather than a 7/8 minute frequency? Surely an extra 2 minutes wait is barely noticeable. Seems a very small price to pay for the operator to take 2 buses out of the duty with very little (if any) impact on the passengers.
That 2 minute difference is only on the common sections The 1C/1D suffers though going from 4 buses per hour down to 2. (1D remains 1bph but I have included it because it follows the same routing as the 1C)
Must be the worse service north Knaresborough has had for a long time - back in the 1990s the main core was 6 buses an hour that was formed of 3 1s (now 1C) and 3 2s (since split into two routes which have expanded to todays 1A and 1B). Presumably because the 1C/1D combi was 4 buses a hour that was why Connexions avoided competing since having got stung with their X1C which showed there was not the demand for more than 4 non Transdev buses a hour along the main core whilst the routing in Knaresborough was pretty weird.
I'm guessing not. There's still a few lower frequency timetables around the Transdev network (662, Mainline) along with missing late journeys on the 36 and Witch Way - unless they've decided passenger numbers aren't worth putting them back to how they were before.
I believe the majority of the fleet are Euro 6 compliant, either by design or retrofit upgrades. The electric vehicles due for the 662 should see off the rest of the un-compliant fleet.
What about the elderly Volvo B7TL double deckers that work some journeys on the 67 into Bradford? Have they been retrofitted?
A Transdev Lancashire Day ticket is also £7 (£5.60 if you buy a pack on 10 on the app).
Tweeting about a plan that didn't happen six years ago, when current routes are suffering cancellations and fare rises?
Quite. People are more interested in a bus turning up when the timetable says it will, that the fares are affordable. Rather than a 'look at me' social media post.
Although you'd expect those people to be following the bus company accounts rather than his.
I thought the same, this is his personal Twitter account, not an official company one. And probably many of his followers will be interested in previous ventures/experiments that never made it to production.
Indeed... it's a light-hearted post from a personal Twitter account, not something worth getting knickers in a twist over. Personally I like seeing snippets like this - at least, whatever Alex's perceived faults, he genuinely has some enthusiasm for buses.
