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Post by arrivaarriva on Sept 19, 2019 22:07:12 GMT
Been on two of them this week on the 228, different vehicles and different drivers. One journey mid-morning and one late afternoon. Both vehicles gave an extremely jerky ride as though the driver was continually taking his/her foot off the gas or else continually pressing the brake. Noticeable enough for me to consider avoiding the route when possible
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Post by george on Sept 19, 2019 22:13:27 GMT
Been on two of them this week on the 228, different vehicles and different drivers. One journey mid-morning and one late afternoon. Both vehicles gave an extremely jerky ride as though the driver was continually taking his/her foot off the gas or else continually pressing the brake. Noticeable enough for me to consider avoiding the route when possible I'm sure this could have been put in the tower transit thread as YY13VKP said the other day there's too many new threads being started recently.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2019 22:18:31 GMT
Another new thread for a question that could have easily gone in an existing one?
Seriously?
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Post by vjaska on Sept 19, 2019 22:28:26 GMT
Been on two of them this week on the 228, different vehicles and different drivers. One journey mid-morning and one late afternoon. Both vehicles gave an extremely jerky ride as though the driver was continually taking his/her foot off the gas or else continually pressing the brake. Noticeable enough for me to consider avoiding the route when possible Glad to see you ignored people's advice about constantly making a new topic about everything when there are other topics already open to use for certain subjects such as this
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Post by arrivaarriva on Sept 20, 2019 10:54:03 GMT
The question did not relate to any specific operator but about a vehicle type. Not aware of any other thread referring specifically to the Wright Streetlite. On other forums if a post is inadvertently put in an incorrect category, forum staff routinely move it (as on District Dave) without everyone whingeing about "another new topic". Don't worry. I won't be posting on this forum again
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Post by busman on Sept 20, 2019 14:14:19 GMT
The question did not relate to any specific operator but about a vehicle type. Not aware of any other thread referring specifically to the Wright Streetlite. On other forums if a post is inadvertently put in an incorrect category, forum staff routinely move it (as on District Dave) without everyone whingeing about "another new topic". Don't worry. I won't be posting on this forum again Sad when new people are discouraged from contributing to this forum.
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Post by george on Sept 20, 2019 14:52:44 GMT
The question did not relate to any specific operator but about a vehicle type. Not aware of any other thread referring specifically to the Wright Streetlite. On other forums if a post is inadvertently put in an incorrect category, forum staff routinely move it (as on District Dave) without everyone whingeing about "another new topic". Don't worry. I won't be posting on this forum again Sad when new people are discouraged from contributing to this forum. It is sad but at the same time it was mentioned a few times about starting new threads when old ones could be used. I do think that post could have been put in an existing thread like general discussion and ranting that's just my opinion though.
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Post by busman on Sept 20, 2019 16:01:08 GMT
Let’s not be so pedantic. Allocations, fleets, operational details, TfL procedures, industry regs etc seriously matter, but where someone posts? If someone sets up a new post for a particular bus model, it’s hardly the end of the world.
I had most of my teen years before the internet was mainstream. I thought I was weird being the only person I knew that was mad enough to know the entire greater London bus map by heart and be crazy enough to ride buses across London just for the fun of it. Now fast forward to this point where there are forums that connect enthusiasts young and old in one place. It’s a beautiful thing. Let’s not make other enthusiasts feel too intimidated to post here eh? Unless they declare the Eclipse Gemini 3 to be the best looking bus in London. That person should delete their account and vow never to return 😂
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Post by vjaska on Sept 20, 2019 16:35:08 GMT
Let’s not be so pedantic. Allocations, fleets, operational details, TfL procedures, industry regs etc seriously matter, but where someone posts? If someone sets up a new post for a particular bus model, it’s hardly the end of the world. I had most of my teen years before the internet was mainstream. I thought I was weird being the only person I knew that was mad enough to know the entire greater London bus map by heart and be crazy enough to ride buses across London just for the fun of it. Now fast forward to this point where there are forums that connect enthusiasts young and old in one place. It’s a beautiful thing. Let’s not make other enthusiasts feel too intimidated to post here eh? Unless they declare the Eclipse Gemini 3 to be the best looking bus in London. That person should delete their account and vow never to return 😂 Making thread after thread takes up space and I believe it also affects memory as well although happy to be corrected. Whilst you could argue that the mods should be tidying it up, they're also humans and likely have busy lives. It isn't about making people intimidated nor has anyone been intimidated either and neither does it involve being pedantic - it has been mentioned to the very same person that they could ask someone on here and that many people on here would happily help them and it was ignored.
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Post by YY13VKP on Sept 20, 2019 23:16:42 GMT
The question did not relate to any specific operator but about a vehicle type. Not aware of any other thread referring specifically to the Wright Streetlite. On other forums if a post is inadvertently put in an incorrect category, forum staff routinely move it (as on District Dave) without everyone whingeing about "another new topic". Don't worry. I won't be posting on this forum again Sad when new people are discouraged from contributing to this forum. Whilst it may be sad, I have to say that quitting the forum just because someone who's as experienced as vjaska is giving you some advice, or someone disagrees with your views is absolutely ridiculous and I note that quite a few people have done this as of late. We were all new once, but it takes time to adapt to the forum fully and the only way you'll do that is by learning from others when they give you feedback if something isn't quite right about your posts. People will be critical when a post or thread is slightly out of the ordinary but it's how you learn from it and ultimately bounce back that makes you more respected, quitting the forum when things don't go your way or feel discouraged is not the way to go about it IMO, although I know this is easier said than done. It's all part of a learning curve though and I found this out myself when I signed up to this forum back in July 2014 as a highly enthusiastic 13 year old. At the time 13 year old me started out, I must have been one of the most annoying, if not the most annoying member on this forum. All my posts at the time were either constant questions mainly about the first gen DW's or ranting about how bad the 466 was at the time (as I was using it regularly at the time) and I remember a few people getting quite irritated and telling me this. Of course it took some time to "sink in", but I learnt from it eventually, kept on posting and over time my posts have changed quite a lot for the better as I learnt more about the industry from others on this forum and spending time at Go-Ahead London. It may be the case that arrivaarriva doesn't see this post but here's some advice if you do: Man up, listen to what others are saying about your posts and take their advice onboard, come back and start posting again and all will be well.
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Post by ServerKing on Sept 21, 2019 6:52:03 GMT
Sad when new people are discouraged from contributing to this forum. Whilst it may be sad, I have to say that quitting the forum just because someone who's as experienced as vjaska is giving you some advice, or someone disagrees with your views is absolutely ridiculous and I note that quite a few people have done this as of late. We were all new once, but it takes time to adapt to the forum fully and the only way you'll do that is by learning from others when they give you feedback if something isn't quite right about your posts. People will be critical when a post or thread is slightly out of the ordinary but it's how you learn from it and ultimately bounce back that makes you more respected, quitting the forum when things don't go your way or feel discouraged is not the way to go about it IMO, although I know this is easier said than done. It's all part of a learning curve though and I found this out myself when I signed up to this forum back in July 2014 as a highly enthusiastic 13 year old. At the time 13 year old me started out, I must have been one of the most annoying, if not the most annoying member on this forum. All my posts at the time were either constant questions mainly about the first gen DW's or ranting about how bad the 466 was at the time (as I was using it regularly at the time) and I remember a few people getting quite irritated and telling me this. Of course it took some time to "sink in", but I learnt from it eventually, kept on posting and over time my posts have changed quite a lot for the better as I learnt more about the industry from others on this forum and spending time at Go-Ahead London. It may be the case that arrivaarriva doesn't see this post but here's some advice if you do: Man up, listen to what others are saying about your posts and take their advice onboard, come back and start posting again and all will be well. There are more divas hence the 'to-hell-with-you-all-then' responses before flouncing out of the forum... it might be viewed as a self cleaning mechanism which will mean no stupid posts We were all new once, but generally it's good to observe how a forum works, and try to post something relevant. Yes, there is the initial excitement, and frustration when the first few posts are not seen, which may cause some to post anything for attention. I have been on a car forum of late, but have to sense the tone before posting... they may not like the "news headlines" format so I've dialled it down. I used to post about the knackered stuff on the 123 all the time (attention has shifted to the knackered stuff on the 191 and 192, lol) and some may have got tired of it. Some may have cheekily put me down, but I have also seen off my fair share of keyboard warriors as well. To answer OP's question, Wrightbus products are crap, hence the financial chaos they find themselves in currently. Tower Transit may have bought more as Wrightbus were probably throwing them at them at a knockdown just to get something in the order book. Already they have lost the 444 despite fairly new Streetlites of 17 plate. They are Euro6 so no reason to go either. Ditto with the 25 despite new buses on the route. Buses squeak and rattle within weeks of service, dated or ugly design, ineffective air cooling (usually ice cold in winter and useless in summer) Even Arriva are cautiously buying just handfuls of the Streetdeck (Yorkshire / Southern Counties) and would even be prepared to buy second hand stuff for the 34 rather than new. I think they're buying more ADL, it's nice to see E200s ordered for the 192, I assume they will be mirrorless with LED blinds as now TfL spec
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Post by george on Sept 21, 2019 12:04:32 GMT
Sad when new people are discouraged from contributing to this forum. Whilst it may be sad, I have to say that quitting the forum just because someone who's as experienced as vjaska is giving you some advice, or someone disagrees with your views is absolutely ridiculous and I note that quite a few people have done this as of late. We were all new once, but it takes time to adapt to the forum fully and the only way you'll do that is by learning from others when they give you feedback if something isn't quite right about your posts. People will be critical when a post or thread is slightly out of the ordinary but it's how you learn from it and ultimately bounce back that makes you more respected, quitting the forum when things don't go your way or feel discouraged is not the way to go about it IMO, although I know this is easier said than done. It's all part of a learning curve though and I found this out myself when I signed up to this forum back in July 2014 as a highly enthusiastic 13 year old. At the time 13 year old me started out, I must have been one of the most annoying, if not the most annoying member on this forum. All my posts at the time were either constant questions mainly about the first gen DW's or ranting about how bad the 466 was at the time (as I was using it regularly at the time) and I remember a few people getting quite irritated and telling me this. Of course it took some time to "sink in", but I learnt from it eventually, kept on posting and over time my posts have changed quite a lot for the better as I learnt more about the industry from others on this forum and spending time at Go-Ahead London. It may be the case that arrivaarriva doesn't see this post but here's some advice if you do: Man up, listen to what others are saying about your posts and take their advice onboard, come back and start posting again and all will be well. You make some good points but I do hate that phrase of being told to "man up"
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