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Post by mondraker275 on Mar 27, 2024 8:52:55 GMT
Hi everyone, just wondered if anyone knew some bus stands where the buses reverse into the stands The North Finchley stand on Woodhouse Road has buses reverse into it Oddly, I am pretty sure there is a sign there that says 'Do not reverse into bays' which completely baffled me. So I guess they expect people to drive in and then reverse out of the bays.
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Post by mondraker275 on Mar 27, 2024 9:09:24 GMT
Took the 58 via its diversion through Upton Lane and Plashet Road (due to Forest Gate fire) and rather surprised at the number of passengers boarding on Upton Lane, more than 20 over the first three stops and most stayed on. It occurred to me that it is a handy route for locals/shoppers of that area to get to Upton Park/Green Street and Forest Gate in other direction quickly. So I wonder what the numbers are generally like and if TfL monitor diversion numbers. If the numbers are good then I would suggest sending 330 permanently through that way. It would be an easier decision if 58 had its previous frequency but I think it could cope without the 330 for a short section of Green Street.
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Post by greenboy on Mar 27, 2024 9:23:14 GMT
The North Finchley stand on Woodhouse Road has buses reverse into it Oddly, I am pretty sure there is a sign there that says 'Do not reverse into bays' which completely baffled me. So I guess they expect people to drive in and then reverse out of the bays. I think normal practice is to drive in and reverse out, it's also restricted to four buses although there have been complaints about excessive numbers of buses and noise nuisance etc.
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Post by M1104 on Mar 27, 2024 10:55:10 GMT
Yesterday on board the 77 along Garrett Lane my girlfriend and I couldn't help giggling where we saw a 156 doing a three point turn outside the entrance to Streatham Cemetery, the bus missing a light running turn into Wimbledon Road after its Haydons Road curtailment. I joked that the driver's thinks he's Stan Butler doing the 11 to the cemetery gates (regular reference in 70's comedy On the Buses). What actually brought our full laughter was that barely a minute later a 155 had missed its left turn into Fountain Road and was at the G1/44/77/270/N44 bus stop just after. We could just about hear our 77 driver talking with him, presumably advising him to loop around via Wimbledon Road to get to Blackshaw Road back on line of route.
I told my girlfriend that I once made a mistake at that same junction by turning my G1 right out off Foundation Road towards Tooting Broadway with my Battersea bound bus. She jokingly replied, "..and you wanted me to drive a bus when you trained drivers can't even do it properly" lol
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Post by capitalomnibus on Mar 27, 2024 22:52:03 GMT
Took the 58 via its diversion through Upton Lane and Plashet Road (due to Forest Gate fire) and rather surprised at the number of passengers boarding on Upton Lane, more than 20 over the first three stops and most stayed on. It occurred to me that it is a handy route for locals/shoppers of that area to get to Upton Park/Green Street and Forest Gate in other direction quickly. So I wonder what the numbers are generally like and if TfL monitor diversion numbers. If the numbers are good then I would suggest sending 330 permanently through that way. It would be an easier decision if 58 had its previous frequency but I think it could cope without the 330 for a short section of Green Street. I remember years ago when the 58 was diverted via Upton Lane the route used to pick up a lot of people. Although Green Street if the 330 is taken away would be extremely busy for the 58. I do not know if it is the same with the masses getting it to go Upton Park station or the shops as it was in the early 2000's. It now may have the shift the other way to Forest Gate for the Elizabeth line
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Post by Paul on Mar 28, 2024 9:14:21 GMT
Hi everyone, just wondered if anyone knew some bus stands where the buses reverse into the stands The 246 reverses onto the stand at Westerham and technically does so at Chartwell as well although most of us just pull across the coach bays there because we only get five minutes and there’s usually no coaches anyway!
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Post by mkay315 on Mar 28, 2024 22:48:37 GMT
Hi folks. So I have two things to say. Will the SL3 be good for me to hop on this week or should I hold fire and wait until the roadworks are done?
I did hop on it a few weeks back but I would like another go on the route to see how it's like.
The second thing is I genuinely hope the SL2 doesn't become my new 266, (those of you that know about that story will understand why I say that, if you don't then the search bar will be handy to use to dig up the archives)
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Post by rugbyref on Mar 29, 2024 8:22:25 GMT
Hi everyone, just wondered if anyone knew some bus stands where the buses reverse into the stands I recently took the Go Ahead route 3 (Locksbottom to Sevenoaks, partially replacing the long gone 402). The afternoon service at 13.35 from Sevenoaks sees the driver reverse from its lunch stop stand to the bus stop.
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Post by southlondon413 on Mar 29, 2024 8:36:44 GMT
Hi everyone, just wondered if anyone knew some bus stands where the buses reverse into the stands I recently took the Go Ahead route 3 (Locksbottom to Sevenoaks, partially replacing the long gone 402). The afternoon service at 13.35 from Sevenoaks sees the driver reverse from its lunch stop stand to the bus stop. FYI Go Coach isn’t part of Go Ahead, entirely separate company.
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Post by Paul on Mar 29, 2024 11:05:18 GMT
Hi folks. So I have two things to say. Will the SL3 be good for me to hop on this week or should I hold fire and wait until the roadworks are done? Unless you’re planning on doing it really early or really late I’d hold fire until the roadworks are gone - it’s taking anything between 30 and 60 minutes to negotiate the temporary traffic lights and iBus are regularly curtailing buses to Bexleyheath
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Post by mkay315 on Mar 29, 2024 12:19:18 GMT
Hi folks. So I have two things to say. Will the SL3 be good for me to hop on this week or should I hold fire and wait until the roadworks are done? Unless you’re planning on doing it really early or really late I’d hold fire until the roadworks are gone - it’s taking anything between 30 and 60 minutes to negotiate the temporary traffic lights and iBus are regularly curtailing buses to Bexleyheath Duly noted and it doesn't help that there's no Elizabeth line over the weekend which may be a blessing in disguise
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Post by ronnie on Mar 29, 2024 15:07:40 GMT
This regulation bit is getting ridiculous
So I boarded an empty 188 from TCR just after 2pm. Bus dawdles on without any purpose despite roads being pretty empty
Just before Waterloo bridge, the driver announced that the destination of the bus had changed to Greenwich cutty sark. Fine, i wasn’t planning to go the full route anyway
To add insult to injury, at the Waterloo bridge / south bank stop the bus proceeds to regulate the bus for 7+ min
Now either you are running late so you need to be turned or you are just taking the p*****
Duly got off and boarded the 1 behind
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Post by yunus on Mar 30, 2024 1:10:42 GMT
A small rant:
Putting my love for Diesel buses to aside, the TFL bus network is just deteriorating and sadly my interest is reducing.
Someone be kind enough to say whether this is normal or not? My mum says it is cos I am growing up.
Finally just to be clear, I have a personal principle (said before) that we simply do not need buses with batteries or any form of so called "reducing emissions" tech, that is why I will use only Diesel buses as much as possible. Ofc it will eventually be a daily need to use Hybrid/Electric but atm I take day by day.
Yes I like engine sounds but it is not the core reason of my conventional Diesel bus preference. When I have free time believe me I do so much research. I compare information from different sites.
All are welcome to challenge and disagree but I am confident that Diesel @ E6 is clean enough without need for any other techs or batteries driving the vehicle e.g Hybrid / Electric. Watch this space for E7 coming out next year.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Mar 30, 2024 1:29:00 GMT
A small rant: Putting my love for Diesel buses to aside, the TFL bus network is just deteriorating and sadly my interest is reducing. Someone be kind enough to say whether this is normal or not? My mum says it is cos I am growing up. Finally just to be clear, I have a personal principle (said before) that we simply do not need buses with batteries or any form of so called "reducing emissions" tech, that is why I will use only Diesel buses as much as possible. Ofc it will eventually be a daily need to use Hybrid/Electric but atm I take day by day. Yes I like engine sounds but it is not the core reason of my conventional Diesel bus preference. When I have free time believe me I do so much research. I compare information from different sites. All are welcome to challenge and disagree but I am confident that Diesel @ E6 is clean enough without need for any other techs or batteries driving the vehicle e.g Hybrid / Electric. Watch this space for E7 coming out next year. Would you be confident breathing in the air directly from a bus exhaust pipe if you think that Euro6 diesels are enough?
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Post by yunus on Mar 30, 2024 2:34:05 GMT
A small rant: Putting my love for Diesel buses to aside, the TFL bus network is just deteriorating and sadly my interest is reducing. Someone be kind enough to say whether this is normal or not? My mum says it is cos I am growing up. Finally just to be clear, I have a personal principle (said before) that we simply do not need buses with batteries or any form of so called "reducing emissions" tech, that is why I will use only Diesel buses as much as possible. Ofc it will eventually be a daily need to use Hybrid/Electric but atm I take day by day. Yes I like engine sounds but it is not the core reason of my conventional Diesel bus preference. When I have free time believe me I do so much research. I compare information from different sites. All are welcome to challenge and disagree but I am confident that Diesel @ E6 is clean enough without need for any other techs or batteries driving the vehicle e.g Hybrid / Electric. Watch this space for E7 coming out next year. Would you be confident breathing in the air directly from a bus exhaust pipe if you think that Euro6 diesels are enough? That is an irrelevant question to this topic but I will answer. Ofc not! Have no idea what your point is? Batteries pollute more, that is my own opinion. They are also unhealthy.
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