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Post by busaholic on Sept 21, 2018 20:21:26 GMT
"There is a new 'TfL route' to provide a larger space for wheelchairs, meaning that the seat totals are being reduced on some batches. This seems to apply to new build 9.75m and 10.9m E20Ds thus far, the first to be affected being the newest E20Ds for RTP. Nothing has been said yet about altering existing buses." Source - LOTS (Sept 2018) All the more reason to re-introduce tip-up seats, which only TfL afaik of the large operators doesn't entertain. The lack of seats for those of us who can neither climb stairs nor are in a wheelchair becomes an ever larger problem, exacerbated by headway cuts. |
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Post by Frenzie on Sept 21, 2018 21:39:14 GMT
Something quite extraordinary occurred on my way home. I was on the 65 and we were waiting to pull out of the Watermans Centre bus stop when my driver honked several times at a 267 overtaking us. The driver of the 267 honked several times back and we pulled up beside him ready to turn right onto Ealing Road. The driver of the 267 then ferociously slammed open his cab window and proceeded to attack the near side mirror on our bus while swearing and shouting at our driver. He then showed us the finger and drove off. Obviously our driver could no longer see out of his left hand side mirror so had to get out of the cab and adjust it all over again. Second incident this week where I’ve witnessed two FW drivers screaming and swearing at each other for no apparent reason!
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Post by sid on Sept 22, 2018 5:33:37 GMT
Something quite extraordinary occurred on my way home. I was on the 65 and we were waiting to pull out of the Watermans Centre bus stop when my driver honked several times at a 267 overtaking us. The driver of the 267 honked several times back and we pulled up beside him ready to turn right onto Ealing Road. The driver of the 267 then ferociously slammed open his cab window and proceeded to attack the near side mirror on our bus while swearing and shouting at our driver. He then showed us the finger and drove off. Obviously our driver could no longer see out of his left hand side mirror so had to get out of the cab and adjust it all over again. Second incident this week where I’ve witnessed two FW drivers screaming and swearing at each other for no apparent reason! Astonishing, it might well be a case for the police let alone TfL/RATP to investigate? Presumably this will all be on CCTV and it's hard to see any other option than instant dismissal. I've seen the occasional road rage incident between bus drivers, and it really does look so unprofessional, but never between drivers from the same garage. |
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Post by busaholic on Sept 22, 2018 16:33:49 GMT
Something quite extraordinary occurred on my way home. I was on the 65 and we were waiting to pull out of the Watermans Centre bus stop when my driver honked several times at a 267 overtaking us. The driver of the 267 honked several times back and we pulled up beside him ready to turn right onto Ealing Road. The driver of the 267 then ferociously slammed open his cab window and proceeded to attack the near side mirror on our bus while swearing and shouting at our driver. He then showed us the finger and drove off. Obviously our driver could no longer see out of his left hand side mirror so had to get out of the cab and adjust it all over again. Second incident this week where I’ve witnessed two FW drivers screaming and swearing at each other for no apparent reason! Astonishing, it might well be a case for the police let alone TfL/RATP to investigate? Presumably this will all be on CCTV and it's hard to see any other option than instant dismissal. I've seen the occasional road rage incident between bus drivers, and it really does look so unprofessional, but never between drivers from the same garage. The only case of fisticuffs I've witnessed (in London, anyway) between drivers was between two X drivers, who confronted each other when their buses were going in opposite directions, so I assumed some 'previous' between them. It was so long ago that X represented Middle Row, North Kensington, and both buses had conductors who (thankfully) didn't get involved. |
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Post by grubbysa on Sept 22, 2018 19:29:04 GMT
With winter soon approaching its time for the spotlight to move from faulty air cooling non working heating. However this evening I was shocked to experience EN14 upper deck heating to be working, wasn't the best as it appeared to keep cutting out and when it was on it wasn't very strong, but for a Euro 4 E400 I wasn't complaining. Unfortunately my luck didn't last as I got E276 later with no hot air blowing out from nowhere apart from us passengers. Really I do think heating should be kept in check for passengers but a kid can hope  |
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Post by sid on Sept 22, 2018 23:13:38 GMT
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Post by ronnie on Sept 23, 2018 8:04:33 GMT
With winter soon approaching its time for the spotlight to move from faulty air cooling non working heating. However this evening I was shocked to experience EN14 upper deck heating to be working, wasn't the best as it appeared to keep cutting out and when it was on it wasn't very strong, but for a Euro 4 E400 I wasn't complaining. Unfortunately my luck didn't last as I got E276 later with no hot air blowing out from nowhere apart from us passengers. Really I do think heating should be kept in check for passengers but a kid can hope Finally ... a very relevant issue! In my experience, a fairly significant number of buses are freezing in winter. Not sure why but with no heating it makes for a very chilly experience. Wonder how the drivers cope with it? |
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Post by ronnie on Sept 23, 2018 8:06:26 GMT
Quite ridiculous .... this is basic. And thereby doesn’t seem to be any reason for the stop to be closed in the first place |
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Post by grubbysa on Sept 23, 2018 10:37:06 GMT
With winter soon approaching its time for the spotlight to move from faulty air cooling non working heating. However this evening I was shocked to experience EN14 upper deck heating to be working, wasn't the best as it appeared to keep cutting out and when it was on it wasn't very strong, but for a Euro 4 E400 I wasn't complaining. Unfortunately my luck didn't last as I got E276 later with no hot air blowing out from nowhere apart from us passengers. Really I do think heating should be kept in check for passengers but a kid can hope Finally ... a very relevant issue! In my experience, a fairly significant number of buses are freezing in winter. Not sure why but with no heating it makes for a very chilly experience. Wonder how the drivers cope with it? The cab heating generally tends to work as without it, the windscreen would mist up, not much comfort to passengers however, most of the time all the saloon heating needs is a new sensor. |
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Post by VWH1414 on Sept 23, 2018 11:44:45 GMT
If TfL really cannot get something as basic as this right............!! I mean TfL can't even do something as basic as changing bus stop tiles, its been 3 weeks and the ones in Deansbrook (On one side) still display 303 and towards Grahame Park (On the side they bothered to remove tiles from). TfL really need to sort themselves out, its not very good for attracting customers if they can't do basics. |
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Post by snoggle on Sept 23, 2018 12:33:10 GMT
If TfL really cannot get something as basic as this right............!! I mean TfL can't even do something as basic as changing bus stop tiles, its been 3 weeks and the ones in Deansbrook (On one side) still display 303 and towards Grahame Park (On the side they bothered to remove tiles from). TfL really need to sort themselves out, its not very good for attracting customers if they can't do basics. This is the nonsense that happens when you reorganise things in a poor way and let all the experienced people leave. It will take TfL 2 years to recover from its latest reorganisation by which time it will be embarking on its next one. Seen it umpteen times.  |
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Post by ServerKing on Sept 23, 2018 12:43:01 GMT
I mean TfL can't even do something as basic as changing bus stop tiles, its been 3 weeks and the ones in Deansbrook (On one side) still display 303 and towards Grahame Park (On the side they bothered to remove tiles from). TfL really need to sort themselves out, its not very good for attracting customers if they can't do basics. This is the nonsense that happens when you reorganise things in a poor way and let all the experienced people leave. It will take TfL 2 years to recover from its latest reorganisation by which time it will be embarking on its next one. Seen it umpteen times. Perhaps the experienced people were paid too well so they've been withdrawn from service?  |
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Post by snoggle on Sept 23, 2018 13:02:15 GMT
Perhaps the experienced people were paid too well so they've been withdrawn from service? The experienced people tend to have seen it all before. A few stay on and battle on - presumably in the hope they may be promoted or because they have family and financial demands that require them to keep earning their TfL salary. Others have enough service to make voluntary redundancy an appropriate option especially if, in a few years (or immediately), they can take up their pension. I didn't have the latter option but I took redundancy because I knew I was doomed as was the department I would have been asked to manage [1]. There was zero point in me staying - another year in the place would have put me in hospital with mental or physical health problems and that wasn't a price worth considering, never mind paying. I had to take control of my future. Thankfully I had been sufficiently well planned to ensure my financial security and I have no dependents. I know I was in a lucky place that most people don't ever have which allowed me to take the decision I took. Didn't stop me being in tears as I handed over my bits and pieces to my boss on that last afternoon.  [1] it was reorganised out of existence a year later and my successor ended up having to take redundancy. At least my ability to read the future wasn't impaired. |
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Post by Pilot on Sept 23, 2018 15:12:57 GMT
Any of you were bus spotting at Rennel Street like few days ago? I saw like 5 people standing on an island just below the bridge as soon as you come off the Lewisham Station with chairs and equipment and what not.
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Post by ServerKing on Sept 23, 2018 16:45:03 GMT
Perhaps the experienced people were paid too well so they've been withdrawn from service? The experienced people tend to have seen it all before. A few stay on and battle on - presumably in the hope they may be promoted or because they have family and financial demands that require them to keep earning their TfL salary. Others have enough service to make voluntary redundancy an appropriate option especially if, in a few years (or immediately), they can take up their pension. I didn't have the latter option but I took redundancy because I knew I was doomed as was the department I would have been asked to manage [1]. There was zero point in me staying - another year in the place would have put me in hospital with mental or physical health problems and that wasn't a price worth considering, never mind paying. I had to take control of my future. Thankfully I had been sufficiently well planned to ensure my financial security and I have no dependents. I know I was in a lucky place that most people don't ever have which allowed me to take the decision I took. Didn't stop me being in tears as I handed over my bits and pieces to my boss on that last afternoon. [1] it was reorganised out of existence a year later and my successor ended up having to take redundancy. At least my ability to read the future wasn't impaired. Still spending money like water on hare brained schemes no doubt like the "Maplin" bus stop flags with the countdown info on a tiny LCD screen at least the Hanover blinds are promising... when I was there they would overspend like Katie Price... not sure if it was just after Ken had flooded London with bendies (despite their fires and fare evasion) but buying users completely new laptops because they had lost their charger seemed like a false economy... like the engineer trips to Amersham on the train to deliver a keyboard or mouse when we could have put it on a GLH bike I guess all the experienced branding people left after the 283 Duck Bus judging by the disastrous efforts in Barkingside  |
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