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    Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Bus News

    Uni type contracts typically have vehicle specifications so it’s unlikely any of those could transfer to Trent unless similar aged or newer replacements were obtained.
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    Refusal to give up space for wheelchair

    The problem when they do that is it significantly reduces the number of seats accessible without needing to climb a step which impacts on accessibility for many elderly and ambulant disabled people.
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    Arriva Leicester electric buses still not in service.

    I agree that it wouldn’t exactly look good but as an alternative to cancelling services, which the current situation is leading to, it probably is the better option.
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    Arriva Leicester electric buses still not in service.

    The original plan was for 24 electric street decks to see some older vehicles into retirement as well as return the decker fleet to a number more in line with what is typically required for a full service to operate. It was never confirmed exactly what would be withdrawn but it is widely assumed...
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    Arriva Leicester electric buses still not in service.

    The first of a batch of 24 electric Streetdecks was delivered back in September with publicity at the time suggesting an October introduction into service. 3 months later than this there is still no progress with the buses being introduced and even driver training now appears to be on hold with...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    I mean does this news make any real difference to the average passenger as long as the wider rollout isn’t being pushed back due to the publicity stunt working no longer taking place? A unit running a one off service while there is only 3 drivers trained on the units may technically met a...
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    Midland Main Line disruption 13/12/23

    Honestly staffing shouldn’t be too much of an issue as if that was the only they should quite easily be able to source taxis to transport crew between Nottingham and Derby as required.
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    Arriva Buses (including Greenline)

    I’m not sure how rerouting buses in Leicester City Centre will remove buses from Fosse Park? The vast majority of the issues with services around Fosse Park have nothing to do with the roads around the centre itself but rather those elsewhere on the route (as well as highly excessive journey...
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    Arriva Buses (including Greenline)

    I’m about the last person to defend Arriva in Leicester but to be fair at Fosse Park the stops on the main road are at least as convenient and in many cases more so as the stops that previous posters consider to be inside the park (with the exception of those solely wanting Asda). The bigger...
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    Grand Central Rail- 8 passenger seats closed off

    Of course people shouldn’t be sat in that area whilst the train is in motion but at the same time unattended belongings (which is what the previous poster was actually referring to) shouldn’t be left in a passenger accessible area (even if that area is nominally taped off). Not only is it a...
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    Arriva Buses (including Greenline)

    The problem with that attitude is that it basically tells other local authorities that the way to get better services is to bring in rules that destroy services elsewhere. If bus companies basically said “fine we won’t operate our older buses anymore but have nothing to replace them with so we...
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    Arriva Buses (including Greenline)

    Arriva also continues to go from bad to worse to in desperate need of intervention from the traffic commissioner in Leicester. By 07:30 this morning two vehicles had broken down on the same route as well as 2 further boards on the route never making it into service. If Arriva cannot comply with...
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    £2 Price Cap on fares in England - Now extended beyond October 2023

    I think if anything urban journeys can be more expensive than those elsewhere as passengers typically only require a single route to get to their destination in urban areas but elsewhere people regularly need to connect so are already paying twice as much. At the same time it probably would make...
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    Trent Barton: what happened to ‘the really good bus company’?

    The other big one is the abstract refusal to operate deckers which means they require significantly more drivers than other companies transporting a comparable number of passengers and have nothing to cascade to the groups secondary operations meaning they have to regularly purchase mid life...
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    Is a 2 mile walk (suggested by journey planners) reasonable?

    I’m not sure that the data there is much better. Not only is it extremely unlikely that it would be possible to leave one station walk to the bus stop wait for a bus to arrive travel to the bus stop outside the other station and walk to the entrance within 5 minutes but if it was genuinely a 5...
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    Train driving suitable for a mum of 2

    Ok, we don’t have the odd minute starts but those of us in hospitality regularly work a pattern along the lines of Late, Early, Early, Late, Early within the same run of shifts so in some ways a run of starts within a couple of hours of each other would seem basically the same shift to many...
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    Pumpkin Sheffield closed

    SSP is a catering company that holds a monopoly over station catering and overcharges customers go do not realise that the differently branded outlets charging essentially the same price (usually with one outlet being slightly less extortionate with the intention of tricking people into...
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    Bus Driver Shortages

    It will never sort itself out as the bus companies are enjoying having an excuse for providing a substandard service a bit too much. It has reached the point that the local Arriva depot are claiming the shortage of drivers is causing every single cancellation even where it is plainly obvious...
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    Arriva Buses (including Greenline)

    Presumably they are having to re look at things as it is becoming increasingly clear that Leicester will not be able to give up anything like 28 of the 16 plate E400MMCs any time soon given the ongoing issues with the older vehicles in the fleet. Given the rate at which the B9s are failing and...
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    National Express: ticket not on drivers chart?

    But the system seems robust in that there was an alternative way to validate the ticket for use and you faced no issues travelling. Essentially the QR codes act as a way for the drivers to speed up boarding for the vast majority of passengers whilst the written codes are the definitive way to...

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