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Post by YX10FFN on Mar 20, 2024 15:17:05 GMT
Also none of the remaining 4 buses at S have been in service today, looks like after this huge running long running saga the 226 will be fully EV soon. Volvo won’t be happy as he can’t stand those BEs 😂😂 this morning I was running light to Ealing and was on hanger lane which is a 40 and it started reading 20 and suddenly started slowing the bus down with vehicles behind me and they started beeping at me. This is extremely dangerous and stressful for bus drivers. Hope this issue is fixed immediately.
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Post by Volvo on Mar 20, 2024 19:56:41 GMT
this morning I was running light to Ealing and was on hanger lane which is a 40 and it started reading 20 and suddenly started slowing the bus down with vehicles behind me and they started beeping at me. This is extremely dangerous and stressful for bus drivers. Hope this issue is fixed immediately. Yes it is, the most annoying this is as the 226 has quite a few speed limit changes both on route and light runs. Acton Lane as you cross over the railway lines depending on which way you are going the speed limit changes from 20-30 or vice versa then again on Acton Lane between Minet Avenue & Greenhill Park it changes from 30 to 20 to 30 in a few hundred yards. This confuses the so called 'intelligent' speed limiter and if your heading towards Golders Green, some buses just stick 20mph (realistically 17mph) up until Connaught Road before changing to 30 (27mph). Other areas where this Idiotic speed limiter doesn't work well are Lockett Road between Sancroft Road and Warham Road, where the speed limit changes from 30 to 20 but the bus still shows 30 then changes to 20 but then when you get to Lorne Road where the speed limit changes back to 30, the bus still displays 20 all the way upto Montrose Road. Then Watford Road @ Perrin Road the speed limit changes from 30 to 20 but the bus still shows 30 until vale farm then it changes shows 20. When you get to the big roundabout, junction with Bridgewater Road where the speed limit changes to a 30 and you go around the roundabout the bus is still showing 20, then it changes to 30 but now this part of Bridgewater Road is a 40, it finally changes to 40 around where the railway line crosses underneath but by this time the speed limit is changing back to a 30 again. Finally as I have mentioned above the ISA sometimes cuts out like a poor internet reception so it goes on/off constantly on some buses (BEs & BCEs) so whichever speed limit your in it either goes 20-17, 17-20, 20-17 .... And in a 30 limit 27-30, 30-27, 27-30 because for some odd reason 20 according to ISA is actually 17mph and 30 is actually 27mph. BCE47154 has the worst ISA limiter of any bus I've driven so far because it stops at 26mph and whenever you go down any hills or inclines and go to 27-30mph it flashes like crazy!! Finally ISA on the ADHs whenever you pull out of Edgware Station it's stuck on 9mph upto Rectory Lane or to where the Nandos is depending on which direction you are going. Also on honeypot lane which is a 40 and has huge 40mph signs the ISA doesn't pick this up at all and shows 30 so your stuck at 27mph all the way down the road.
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Post by Jack on Mar 22, 2024 11:30:08 GMT
The following are all parked up at Twickenham DE20018 DE20055 DE20119 DE20167 DE20174 DE20181 DE20182 DE20183 DE20185 DE20188 DE20189
BE37024 is in the workshop refurbished
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Post by twobellstogo on Mar 22, 2024 20:42:13 GMT
Just a random observation.
I was on a 116 yesterday, and a passenger informed the driver that someone had left a mobile phone downstairs, so the driver got out of his cab, and went upstairs to give it back to its owner.
Unfortunately he forgot to apply the brakes. And I have to tell you it is very disconcerting to drift backwards down Hounslow High Street 😮
(no damage, no injuries but my word I’ve never seen a bus driver move so fast!!!!)
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Post by vjaska on Mar 22, 2024 22:34:30 GMT
Just a random observation. I was on a 116 yesterday, and a passenger informed the driver that someone had left a mobile phone downstairs, so the driver got out of his cab, and went upstairs to give it back to its owner. Unfortunately he forgot to apply the brakes. And I have to tell you it is very disconcerting to drift backwards down Hounslow High Street 😮 (no damage, no injuries but my word I’ve never seen a bus driver move so fast!!!!) Had a similar situation back in my school days - was on a M on the 196 during it's troubled years and the driver stopped part way up Knights Hill. For whatever reason, he didn't apply the brakes and we drifted downhill for a short bit - thankfully, it just happened to be a quiet day along their as usually there would be traffic behind any bus climbing Knights Hill due to it's steep nature and he quickly resolved the situation
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Post by YX10FFN on Mar 24, 2024 22:03:00 GMT
LT664 made its return to service yesterday after a year and a half off road.
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Post by COBO on Mar 24, 2024 23:49:05 GMT
Would the 295 get all of it bces back from SO and become fully BCE again?
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Post by mkay315 on Mar 25, 2024 11:48:02 GMT
Would the 295 get all of it bces back from SO and become fully BCE again? Its still BCEs at the moment unless something has changed? I think only two left to my understanding
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Post by COBO on Mar 25, 2024 12:15:56 GMT
Would the 295 get all of it bces back from SO and become fully BCE again? Its still BCEs at the moment unless something has changed? I think only two left to my understanding Only two went to SO. Two OME have been covering for them while they have been away.
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Post by ADH45258 on Mar 25, 2024 12:18:03 GMT
Its still BCEs at the moment unless something has changed? I think only two left to my understanding Only two went to SO. Two OME have been covering for them while they have been away. Those BCEs should be needed at SO to make up the TVRs there. My guess is that when the 28 is lost, the 295 will then be fully allocated OMEs, since it has the same PVR as the 28. Then the remaining BCEs at X used for a new contract, perhaps if they retain the 414?
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Post by londonbuses on Mar 26, 2024 11:03:13 GMT
Are there plans for any routes to move garages when the S3 goes to Abellio? For example the K3 could move to TV and the 419 to FW (similar to 85 FW > TV and 216 WK > FW when the 265 was lost).
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Post by TB123 on Mar 26, 2024 11:06:24 GMT
Are there plans for any routes to move garages when the S3 goes to Abellio? For example the K3 could move to TV and the 419 to FW (similar to 85 FW > TV and 216 WK > FW when the 265 was lost). I can see that happening but more likely when the 465 goes in June rather than the S3.
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Post by ADH45258 on Mar 26, 2024 11:52:08 GMT
Are there plans for any routes to move garages when the S3 goes to Abellio? For example the K3 could move to TV and the 419 to FW (similar to 85 FW > TV and 216 WK > FW when the 265 was lost). Could depend on the 71's tender result, TV would be better placed for the 71 if it doesn't get electrics
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Post by paulo on Mar 26, 2024 13:30:34 GMT
Are there plans for any routes to move garages when the S3 goes to Abellio? For example the K3 could move to TV and the 419 to FW (similar to 85 FW > TV and 216 WK > FW when the 265 was lost). Could depend on the 71's tender result, TV would be better placed for the 71 if it doesn't get electrics Not sure AV is viable in its current form so I doubt the 419 will move out unless there is a major reallocation or garage closure in plan.
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Post by JUNIOR26 on Mar 26, 2024 13:43:15 GMT
Are there plans for any routes to move garages when the S3 goes to Abellio? For example the K3 could move to TV and the 419 to FW (similar to 85 FW > TV and 216 WK > FW when the 265 was lost). I don't see the K3 moving to TV. If anything, the 71 is a better choice of route to move but like TB123 said more likely when the 465 goes.
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