Wow, I definitely wouldn't be able to keep driving after that? Were you offered any support after the incidents?Luckily I haven't had any serious incidents here (other than fireworks thrown at the bus that missed in Niddrie) other than stones thrown at the bus last week.
Shortly before I left Cardiff this happened, was pelted with stones while helping a wheelchair user off followed by this brick just as I got back in. Scary experience and pure luck nobody was injured!. Was also assaulted once after a man who wanted to board at a set of traffic lights chased me for almost a mile and attempted to drag me out of the cab window, as well as an irate passenger trying to smash through the assault screen for being refused with an open bottle of vodka. You'd think those experiences would be enough to put me off but for some reason I still enjoy the job
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Specifying lower deck sounds like it was probably just a lost property call.Was there an incident around 4:50pm on a Lothian or in any of the Lothian subsidiaries, I heard something on the intercom couldn't make out what it was completely but when I was getting off a bus (276) I heard some sort of incident happened.
All I could make out was...
" On the lower Deck 184"
If anyone can make anything out of this, is this in connection to the Wester Hails incident or something different.
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Apologies it was me that raised it last night. However I would have thought the vandalism and attacking of Lothian buses and potentially injuring their drivers and passengers was very much on topic.
This is all entirely on topic surely?
From what I remember the 104 wasn’t hugely successful initially.
Wow! Where does time go?
In June New LothianCountry will be 4 years old and the West Lothian Services will be 3 this year too.
That true, it's usually like "every route is failing apart from ×××, or I think that Lothian should wrap up and stay in Edinburgh".That makes sense, but I gathered the ridacard was a deal breaker for most folk, must of helped it was the same year the trams launched also, probably also helped ECB when they took over the 124 with the Ridacard along those ways.
Wow can’t believe it’s been almost a decade since the 113, it’s come so far.
Thats right the 43 will be 4 years old
soon, strange to imagine these services still here after all this time, I know folk are split between Lothians ambitious expansion towards West but it is funny to look back and think what could come next! Here’s to LCB/ECB Lothians “greener” services
Id have to disagree with the pros outweighing the cons statement. In fact id disagree with well maintened aswell. most of their Ex London B9s are a state inside and externaly, eventhough they were repainted 2 years ago, look really faded and worn especially with the replacement panels which are noticeably cheaply done
I don't know what you mean, I have been on many of the ex London B9TL's and they seem to look fine but I may not pick up on these things, I wouldn't say that cons outweigh the pros though.
) . Though they do look externally smart for the most part, just as LCBs vehicles do too.
The Majority of First Bus West Lothian's Fleet are either Volvo B7RLE's Wright Eclipse Urban's (2004-2009) or Wright Streetlite DF's/ Wright Streetlite Max DF's (2013-2015), the rest of the fleet are 2002 52 plated Caetano Nimbus Dart's and 2016 66 plated Enviro400MMC's, also bear in mind that their Bright Bus Tours buses range from 1999-2006.
.Yeah, I was thinking that because the Ex London B9TL's aren't really in bad shape externally or Internally at all.None of their vehicles I've seen and travel on (regularly for work and I live in Bathgate so...) match your description. Is it based on reality or just the usual biased gibberish?
As for other companies, most of the vehicles I see around West Lothian are old B7RLEs doing their bit for the environment (
We don't have a Broxburn Storage Site anymore, we haven't done for about 5-8 years.
Got to agree with this, only once I have noticed some of the new paint coming off showing the old purple - but that is it. The buses are very smart and well presented.None of their vehicles I've seen and travel on (regularly for work and I live in Bathgate so...) match your description. Is it based on reality or just the usual biased gibberish?
As for other companies, most of the vehicles I see around West Lothian are old B7RLEs doing their bit for the environment
Volvo probably, maybe en route to be scrapped.
But its unfair to compare Euro emissions together in this case, nationwide First has at least 5100 buses in frontline work, of which a significant proportion still needs emissions upgrading. I believe First Scotland East has converted circa.30 buses to Euro 6, combined with the younger StreetLites and E400MMCs, that is still better than what you are making it out to be. Also, First has received funding to upgrade 200 more buses to Euro 6 across Scotland, so its not bad.
I wasn't meaning First Bus as a whole, only West Lothian operations i was referring to, I think First bus have a great fleet no doubt about that, like I said I was referring to West Lothian operations
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Im talking about general upkeep of the interiors. The Ex London stock is the only ones that seem to have this issue but they often have dirty interiors (stains on the floor, dusty seats etc..). this is from a general passenger perspective and im not on Lothian Country often but as i say thats often noticable on only the Ex London stock and not the B5s or native B9s
I’m not being biased? Just stating what i’ve seen from my (not often) Lothian Country journeys