harry42
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New Yourbus Livery...very smart:
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New Nottingham Coaches 17 TImetable out now
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New Nottingham Coaches 17 TImetable out now
New Yourbus Livery...very smart:
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New Nottingham Coaches 17 TImetable out now
THE NEW 17 lol. I love it! Back with yet another reworking of the route after having a short rest joking aside I wish it all the luck....
Just about useable for pensioners, no use for anyone else, and with the payments operators receive from bus passes I give it 3 months...
Y28 cut back to Burnside Green from next week. Is this the beginning of the end?
Cuts the vehicle requirement from 4 to 3.
I didn't spot this on VOSA (and I don't miss much!)
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I didn't spot this on VOSA (and I don't miss much!)
Just to confuse things further, NCT tickets will no longer be interavailable with their Link bus routes from 1 March.
I'm not sure if this is driven by council budget cuts or is another ramification of the Competition Commission, but either way yet another useful integrated transport feature has been sacrificed on the alter of deregulation.
If it's budgetary, it has nothing to do with deregulation
Except that before deregulation any socially neccesary services would have just been the responsibility of NCT.
....but if they don't have the money....
Alex Hornby has been appointed managing director of Blazefield Bus Group with effect from 2 February 2015. Hornby moves from Trent Barton, while Blazefields Martin Gilbert transfers to the position of executive chairman.
We are delighted that Alex will be joining Transdev, bringing with him his fantastic track record of success, says Nigel Stevens CEO of parent company Transdev UK and Ireland. Alex will bring to Transdev his past experience developing Trent Barton into a benchmark business within the UK bus industry and, prior to that, his operational experience with some of the leading UK bus operators. We are confident that Alex's combination of experience, passion and creativity are exceptionally well matched to the ambition that Transdev has for Blazefield and that he is the ideal appointment to take the business on the next stage of its evolution.
Hornby joined Trent Barton in 2010 as commercial director having started out as a graduate trainee with Stagecoach and then worked at Go-Aheads Blue Line business.
Gilberts role will see him overseeing business development of the Blazefield business and on other projects for Transdev, in both the UK and internationally.
Trent Barton's commercial director Alex Hornby moving to Blazefield Bus Group (part of Transdev).
Thank heavens for that!
Let him take his crackpot, soap powder style marketing ideas with him and let's hope TB appoint someone who will do the necessary and introduce double deckers on busiest routes, like all the sensible large groups do, to eliminate standing and cease leaving people behind.
They may then become a reasonably good bus company, if not the really good bus company which they purport to be.
Thank heavens for that!
Let him take his crackpot, soap powder style marketing ideas with him and let's hope TB appoint someone who will do the necessary and introduce double deckers on busiest routes, like all the sensible large groups do, to eliminate standing and cease leaving people behind.
They may then become a reasonably good bus company, if not the really good bus company which they purport to be.
Thank heavens for that!
Let him take his crackpot, soap powder style marketing ideas with him and let's hope TB appoint someone who will do the necessary and introduce double deckers on busiest routes, like all the sensible large groups do, to eliminate standing and cease leaving people behind.
They may th a reasonably good bus company, if not the really good bus company which they purport to be.
They may do this, but the single deck only policy has been in effect at Trent from well before Alex joined - from when the original Rainbow routes were introduced, they said that market research showed that most people preferred single to double deck buses (and I think that is true).
When were the last new deckers to join Trent Barton? 1990?
Quite possibly.
I didn't say Hornby introduced the single deck policy but he's certainly perpetuated it. I've said before that market research can be spun to provide whatever answers you want and I don't accept that the majority of people would have said they prefer single deckers.
Ask a passenger who's just been left behind what they would prefer!
Quite possibly.
I didn't say Hornby introduced the single deck policy but he's certainly perpetuated it. I've said before that market research can be spun to provide whatever answers you want and I don't accept that the majority of people would have said they prefer single deckers.
Ask a passenger who's just been left behind what they would prefer!
Yes, that policy decision was made very many years ago and had nothing to do with Alex. It was also made well before many operators realised the benefits of having 'quality' double deck vehicles branded for selected routes - Stagecoach Gold, Arriva Sapphire etc. To me, that approach would now be highly appropriate for a company such as Trent !
Do passengers prefer single deckers? On the whole, yes. INDEPENDENT research suggests that many don't like deckers as there are safety fears (perhaps unwarranted), anti social behaviour (including the issue of people smoking on top decks - it does still happen)
Unless you are running tri-axles, you can't put double glazing or proper air conditioning into a double decker, pretty basic requirements for something supposedly touted as 'quality'.
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Until the nationwide smoking ban, smoking on the top decks (whilst banned by most companies since at least the early 90s) was very common in certain areas, such as around Manchester, but virtually unheard of in London. Anti-social behaviour in the north of England especially was a big issue at the time and coupled with dramatic patronage falls after deregulation, introducing single decks was a no-brainer. Indeed, GM Buses North (for example), marketed these new single deckers as a step change in quality from the previous double deckers, and had double glazing as a bonus.
Unless you are running tri-axles, you can't put double glazing or proper air conditioning into a double decker, pretty basic requirements for something supposedly touted as 'quality'..