That's a pig of a roundabout for sightlines though, speaking as someone who uses it almost every day of my life, sometimes on up to four occasions. Are you sure he didn't just stop at the bus stop, or am I getting the directions of travel wrong?
We’re not promoting it much at present as Eden entry is restricted
It also says it’s a permanent vehicle, so now I’m not so sure
Park and ride, potentially.
I'd be surprised if something that ancient was acquired to be used in front-line passenger service.
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Sorry - which park and ride are you suggesting?
It's more a suggestion.
Hopefully numbers will pick up on the daytrippers during the summer.
A mobile ticket office/publicity unit for ABB would be my guess rather than service work.
Consider the fact it’s already a driver training vehicle and has been for many years at H&D. It can’t really be used for normal work unless it has the same conversion as the former ALX400 trainers
Oh. Sorry
Absolutely. I'm not seeing a 21 year old vehicle being resuscitated for service work, not when there are newer B7RLEs potentially available across the group. Some 2008 e200s for Eden P&R are arriving and sending a load of elderly fleet away for disposal indicates their thinking!
Me too!
On the Buses stated the other day they’re going to start departing as from the 7th
I assume this will be the case too with the MMCs when they start returning from SPS in the next few weeks rather than all of them returning on the same day at once.
I think it was me who asked, so thank you
Their Facebook page says they are open as a pay and walk pay and display car park at present
He was coming from the Long Rock road between the Marazion road and the dual carriageway and I was coming from the A394. And no, he was in motion at the time.
Bus drivers are only human and do err on occasions. We try not to upset other drivers, but it does happen on occasions.
I despair to be honest that people choose to put incidents like this on a bus enthusiasts forum. Whilst it appears to be upsetting this is not the place for a discussion about it and their website surely deals with these type of incidents??? The fact that 37045 was the vehicle involved is of no news worthy value?
It’s a printed newspaper he’s told you the source. But here is an alternative
It's a printed newspaper which has an online presence and, as another poster has helpfully done, it wasn't difficult to find the relevant article.
First of all, it's good news for First South West (and anything that helps the coffers is a good thing for passengers on a wider basis) and also for the town; the P&R has had a charmed existence at times so good to have some stability.
Bus company wins five-year contract to run Taunton's park and ride
BUSES of Somerset has won a contract to continue running Taunton's two park and ride sites.www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk
There were some follow on questions to the Twitter post by Marc Morgan Huws that @richw links to above and it looks like some of the issues you mention have been addressed in the new award. There was a question about whether the service would run on Saturdays, to which the reply was:
and also a query if there would be new buses to which the reply was:
I think I must have looked at the Buses of Somerset twitter rather than Mark Huws' tweet
Didn't see those posts
