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Post by abellion on May 29, 2024 16:00:17 GMT
Shoutout to the driver of E118 on 131 who wins the award for the slowest driver in existence! This guy was doing about 5 - 10mph the whole way and arrived into Fairfield Bus Station +37 minutes late 🔥 Its the half term, every day I've gone out this week there have been at least 3-4 regulations  The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this. |
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Post by wirewiper on May 29, 2024 16:07:44 GMT
Shoutout to the driver of E118 on 131 who wins the award for the slowest driver in existence! This guy was doing about 5 - 10mph the whole way and arrived into Fairfield Bus Station +37 minutes late 🔥 Its the half term, every day I've gone out this week there have been at least 3-4 regulations The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this. Yes, but this driver was over half-a-hour late so unless I'm completely misunderstanding the situation, this has nothing to do with regulation. This driver should be reported for deliberate time-wasting. |
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Post by vjaska on May 29, 2024 16:12:50 GMT
Its the half term, every day I've gone out this week there have been at least 3-4 regulations The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this. Yes, but this driver was over half-a-hour late so this has nothing to do with regulation. This driver should be reported for deliberate time-wasting. The driver of HV309 on the 2 was doing similar yesterday - purposefully driving extremely slowly, deliberately crawling up to traffic lights in the hope they change and doing an extreme crawl when pulling into bus stops - he even refused to open the doors at Brixton until he was exactly level by the flag pole. This was in stark comparison to my rides yesterday on the SL3 & SL5 where none of this was going on, and whilst there was some regulation at Shirley Library on the SL5, the driver was still far from crawling along the whole way. |
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Post by abellion on May 29, 2024 16:18:27 GMT
Its the half term, every day I've gone out this week there have been at least 3-4 regulations The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this. Yes, but this driver was over half-a-hour late so unless I'm completely misunderstanding the situation, this has nothing to do with regulation. This driver should be reported for deliberate time-wasting. Still time wasting which is the main issue. Every half term this just keeps happening whether the bus is regulating or the driver is crawling and purposefully trying to hit red lights. |
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Post by wirewiper on May 29, 2024 16:22:25 GMT
Yes, but this driver was over half-a-hour late so unless I'm completely misunderstanding the situation, this has nothing to do with regulation. This driver should be reported for deliberate time-wasting. Still time wasting which is the main issue. Every half term this just keeps happening whether the bus is regulating or the driver is crawling and purposefully trying to hit red lights. Yes, but there's a difference between doing that to avoid running early - frustrating as that is - and deliberately running so slowly that the bus ends up 37 minutes late! As I said, unless I'm completely misunderstanding the situation. |
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Post by abellion on May 29, 2024 16:33:21 GMT
Still time wasting which is the main issue. Every half term this just keeps happening whether the bus is regulating or the driver is crawling and purposefully trying to hit red lights. Yes, but there's a difference between doing that to avoid running early - frustrating as that is - and deliberately running so slowly that the bus ends up 37 minutes late! As I said, unless I'm completely misunderstanding the situation. I see what you mean, I didn’t mean that they’re the same or similar things, just that both are tedious for passengers  |
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Post by fairgame on May 29, 2024 17:25:22 GMT
I am hearing new drivers are no longer to get Mayors retention bonus.
Now that Sadiq is back in office he doesn’t need bus driver support 🤷🏾
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Post by wirewiper on May 29, 2024 17:42:21 GMT
I am hearing new drivers are no longer to get Mayors retention bonus. Now that Sadiq is back in office he doesn’t need bus driver support 🤷🏾 I haven't heard that - is it official? (i.e. not "someone on TikTok says ....") |
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Post by twobellstogo on May 29, 2024 17:43:28 GMT
I am hearing new drivers are no longer to get Mayors retention bonus. Now that Sadiq is back in office he doesn’t need bus driver support 🤷🏾 1) this is not Go-Ahead specific 2) I am sick and tired of politics creeping into loads of threads here - post it in the mayoral thread in ‘off-route’, not here. |
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Post by tts on May 29, 2024 18:05:48 GMT
Shoutout to the driver of E118 on 131 who wins the award for the slowest driver in existence! This guy was doing about 5 - 10mph the whole way and arrived into Fairfield Bus Station +37 minutes late 🔥 Its the half term, every day I've gone out this week there have been at least 3-4 regulations The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this. No regulating occured! Just super slow driving. Got overtaken once and the two 131's behind caught up |
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Post by greenboy on May 29, 2024 18:09:35 GMT
Its the half term, every day I've gone out this week there have been at least 3-4 regulations The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this. No regulating occured! Just super slow driving. Got overtaken once and the two 131's behind caught up If it really was going that slowly the driver should be reported, not only delaying bus passengers but other road users as well. |
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Post by sp17 on May 30, 2024 8:17:08 GMT
Shoutout to the driver of E118 on 131 who wins the award for the slowest driver in existence! This guy was doing about 5 - 10mph the whole way and arrived into Fairfield Bus Station +37 minutes late 🔥 Looking for a turn probably but the controller is a good one and has clocked onto it and will make him run late and adjust other buses around him. |
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Post by Leccy86Hybrid on May 30, 2024 8:53:16 GMT
Shoutout to the driver of E118 on 131 who wins the award for the slowest driver in existence! This guy was doing about 5 - 10mph the whole way and arrived into Fairfield Bus Station +37 minutes late 🔥 Looking for a turn probably but the controller is a good one and has clocked onto it and will make him run late and adjust other buses around him. Even so there has to be point where if he’s running 30 late, it can’t be justified to keep running him. |
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Post by DE20106 on May 30, 2024 8:58:05 GMT
Shoutout to the driver of E118 on 131 who wins the award for the slowest driver in existence! This guy was doing about 5 - 10mph the whole way and arrived into Fairfield Bus Station +37 minutes late 🔥 Looking for a turn probably but the controller is a good one and has clocked onto it and will make him run late and adjust other buses around him. As someone who isn’t a bus driver, why would a driver be looking and hoping for a turn?😂 |
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Post by WH241 on May 30, 2024 9:06:44 GMT
Looking for a turn probably but the controller is a good one and has clocked onto it and will make him run late and adjust other buses around him. As someone who isn’t a bus driver, why would a driver be looking and hoping for a turn?😂 Not a driver but imagine if near the end of a shift or break it’s to ensure they finish on time or even early if they are told to run light back to the garage. Also think when buses are turned they can end up with longer stand time. |
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The 57 and judging by your experience 131 are on another level of insufferability and god awful passenger experience, something should be done about this.
