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Post by ohdear on Jul 12, 2022 22:55:47 GMT
The answer to the subject is “they don’t care about passengers” Sorry to say the passengers do not care much about them - so drivers stand up for yourselves
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Post by ohdear on Jun 27, 2022 23:43:24 GMT
Its effectively what happened with RM where it was under the Thameside brand. In reality most people won't notice a difference bar variations in driver contracts and the like. Transfers won't be no different to how they are between East London and Selkent at the moment. Was RM initially a low cost operating garage? Wonder if they plan to do the same with LI? But saying that can’t imagine a garage in that location being that cheap. Is there any reason the garage was not just incorporated into the existing east London operation? PK2055831 SN TTOL2022 LTD Director(s): Samuel George Scott, Paul Raymond Cox LEA INTERCHANGE BUS DEPOT, 151 RUCKHOLT ROAD, LONDON, E10 5PB Operating Centre: LEA INTERCHANGE BUS DEPOT, 151 RUCKHOLT ROAD, LONDON, E10 5PB Authorisation: 250 vehicle(s) Transport Manager(s): BERNARD PHILIP ELSOM, SAMUEL GREAVES, Vincent Goane New Undertaking: Vehicles with eight passenger seats or less will not be operated under the licence without the prior written agreement of the Traffic Commissioner who may require you to agree to certain undertakings. Attached to Licence. New Undertaking: Limousines and novelty type vehicles are not to be operated under this operator's licence. Attached to Licence. New Undertaking: At least one additional transport manager will be added to the operator licence by no later than the 20th September 2022. Attached to Licence. New Undertaking: The operator will provide the Traffic Commissioner bank statements covering a three month period and other financial details (such as overdraft facility agreements) in the name of TTOL2022 LTD that show the licence holder has access to the required level of funding. These details to be provided to the Office of the Traffic Commissioner in Leeds by (the last day of sixth month after grant) and cover the months of (previous 3 months). Attached to Licence.
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Post by ohdear on May 30, 2022 22:20:35 GMT
... and from a passenger's point of view they must rank as among the worst double-deckers I have ever travelled on. Dark & dingy inside, everything rattling and signs of the most awful build quality. Which is a contrast to the normal LTs! As much as I despise the LT with all my being I can’t deny the build quality of them is fantastic 😄 They should be having cost several thousand pounds extra so that the bus companies would not buy them
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Post by ohdear on Jul 13, 2021 23:52:36 GMT
Metroline might buy more however from their own pocket in addition to existing hydrogen buses (from TfL and EU) for the 245 retender. Personally can't see that happening, these buses are very expensive and would make the tender very uncompetitive. Without the grants/subsidies they would be expensive to buy and operate
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Post by ohdear on Apr 26, 2021 23:04:50 GMT
The government must see something in it. They see one of their party donors
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Post by ohdear on Mar 27, 2021 0:36:08 GMT
Cannot understand how Wrights are said to be AWOL or that no one is talking about them as news item shows Wrightbus or Bamfordbus whatever they are called are starting to receive grants that ADL or Optare are not getting. Seems like the Borismaster all over again where it was shown Wrights were to receive the contract despite so called tenders
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Post by ohdear on Mar 25, 2021 0:00:39 GMT
Why cancel the order when the buses are probably in the process if being built. The forum is very anti Optare. ADL have a massive order book so can't take on more work so Optare might start to pick up more orders. I know there is probably a notable Anti Optare mantra around, I'm probably one of them But in reality I don't think this is a good showing at all. The N134 still cannot manage a full allocation of OMEs, the 23 contract started last July and the route still hasn't managed to even half convert. The 200s buses are already late, if they do enter service in May it's probably good but no doubt a delay still. RATP's order for 200+ buses probably would have started to persuade Stagecoach, Abellio and Go Ahead to potentially look elsewhere and they've all still gone with ADL despite the already very loaded order book there and more and more orders seem to be heading to ADL. While the Pandemic has happened, Optare have had problems delivering buses on time far beforehand and the strikes are an issue that's controlled by Optare as far as bus operators will probably be concerned, they might just see it as a reason to order elsewhere. I think as more tenders come through, operators might eventually be moving to Optare as while ADL clearly now have a lot of capacity it's not going to be infinite. Although Optare getting orders only because they're the last option probably isn't a good look. I do wonder whether Go Ahead would have still ordered MetroDeckers for the 200 if the 10.2 BYD was ready at the time. While I don't like Optare, the MetroDecker as a passenger is no doubt an improvement and quite a decent bus. But it's not hard to see that Optare are certainly not doing something right now, things are going wrong there, I've not heard much about after sales support, but the fact Metroline are getting a free Metrocity as a gift for a poor rollout from Optare's end, which in itself is running really late suggests support from their end isn't the best either.
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Post by ohdear on Jan 23, 2021 1:09:04 GMT
Well when the hydrogen gets into the bus then it is green but the manufacture of the hydrogen produces plenty of carbon that will have to be stored and the other so called green way uses more power than it produces. So I think Metrobus are only looking at the first point.
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Post by ohdear on Sept 9, 2020 0:29:04 GMT
In the excitement over hydrogen buses what is overlooked is the process from the start and not at the end where only water comes from the exhaust. Wright are pushing them because the owner also owns the company that makes the bits and pieces that makes a hydrogen buses work Making and processing the hydrogen is not exactly the answer that everyone thinks it is and the normal electric buses may be more efficient. Make your own minds up and search the internet for hydrogen versus electric - there are some unbiased reports out there.
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Post by ohdear on May 6, 2020 22:45:28 GMT
What seems to have been forgotten is what the NRM was supposed to be. Passengers were missing the hop on hop off feature of the open back buses and Boris said in his manifesto that he would bring them back. Anyone with the slightest knowledge knew this could not be done in the way people were made to think ie old RM type. So it started with no interest being shown to any bus builder other than Wrights some claiming this was a political decision to support the NI governing party.. The resulting vehicle is subject to opinion but what is upfront is the increased cost of purchasing the buses and the high cost of operation. No other operator has purchased the NRM but the so called son of NRM the Enviro 400 City has sold in and out of London. How the bus works in service is down to individual opinion but it was just another very costly vanity project.
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Post by ohdear on Mar 1, 2020 23:19:09 GMT
NB4Ls at the minimum will stay for their 14 year life. Probably in the 2 or 3 years or so the NB4L successor will be created which will just be the same with a different name. I don't believe any successor or Khan himself has committed to another non essential vehicle so can't see one suddenly popping out of thin air. Think it was the power that be rather than the powers that be
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Post by ohdear on Dec 14, 2019 23:22:24 GMT
As a non aligned voter who takes the time seeking my own info on the various manifestos I am always alarmed at the ill thought out statements being made on this and other boards.
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Post by ohdear on May 29, 2019 23:59:11 GMT
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Post by ohdear on Jun 20, 2018 8:38:14 GMT
With regard to Peter Shipp, I do think his age with showing with some of his comments.
I remember him appearing on local television to show off some ADL 200 MMCs built in Scarborough he had bought.
He was commenting how he was supporting local industries of which the people not in the know would think was very good of him.
However round the side of the garage, out of sight of the cameras, were new buses with Egyptian bodywork rather than ones that could have been built up the road in Scarborough.
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Post by ohdear on Jun 19, 2018 11:39:19 GMT
Yes but it must be remembered that Norfolk Green got where they were by doing more or less the same to Eastern Counties that Lynx did to Stagecoach.
Norfolk Greens last year showed a profit of around £1m
The only competition NG gave to Eastern Counties was their Coasthopper service running fast between KL and Hunstanton.
Lynx introduced a daytime service on the main Hunstanton route ignoring the Castle Rising loop, which incidentally does not now have a through service, and the Sandringham loop.
They then proceeded to undercut Stagecoach and other companies on council tenders, in fact winning the lot.
Lynx of course have done this before via one of their directors Julian Patterson when owning Konnect.
However in the case of Lynx I cannot see Go Ahead coming and putting more millions in his pocket.
I would not mind if any of this brought improvements but it has brought a reduction in services, increase in fares and higher taxpayer subsidies.
Bit off topic so better leave it there.
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