Transdev and Timetables

[WillowTheWhisp]

A new 'bus timetable' has appeared on the pole at the bus stop at the top of Ormerod Street. Now instead of listing the time it leaves town, gets up here, gets to Fern Gore, comes back down again etc it simply states that buses are due at that particular stop at 22 minutes past the hour and every 20 minutes thereafter.

OK minimalist it mat be but as long as it's practical I suppose that's not necessarily a bad thing.

So I leave the house just on the hour and as I round the corner what do I see? The bus leaving the bus stop further down the road! Is this the 18 minutes to which is late or the 12 minutes past which is early?

As it happens I was walking to town but that's not the point - the point is what is the point of a new timetable with new times when the bus itself seems to be keeping to an entirely different schedule?

Yes I will be complaining just as soon as I find contact details for Transdev.

[emamum]

here ya go, think its the right one!

http://www.lancashireunited.co.uk/contact/index.asp

[Wynonie Harris]

It was never like this when Accrington Corporation ran it! Deregulation - another unfortunate legacy of the Thatcher era.

[lancsdave]

Presumably this also means we will have to go and get those stupid passes for the kids to get half fare ?

[flashy]

all the kids are supposed to have them anyway, Reece has had his for almost a year now

[WillowTheWhisp]

Emzie has had one of those passes for a while.

[flashy]

i know the kids around here dont all have them, but thats because they go everywhere in their family cars, they'll have a shock in September when they all need one to get the bus to Rhyddings

[lancsdave]

Our kids have never needed to use Transdev buses so they haven't needed one.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Em got her pass before Transdev came into it. They covered a few different ones. Mind you, we always had the same bus driver who knew them anyway so he never asked to see it.

Originally Posted by emamum23

here ya go, think its the right one!

http://www.lancashireunited.co.uk/contact/index.asp

It's still Accrington Transport although taken over by Transdev. I have just phoned them and been informed that the Fern Gore timetable has not changed and the buses should be running as previously. (ten to, ten past and half past the hour from town)

I can only imagine that the one which wasn't on that schedule may have got held up at some point and then, as it's one bus on a continuous loop, he hadn't got chance of catching upon himself.

I have also learned that there are more hospital buses than I knew about and have now got a note of those for future reference.

[flashy]

even when Reece gets on my bro-in-laws bus he has to show him his pass, even though he knows just how old Reece is, its in case the inspector gets on, sad but true

[jaysay]

They only put these notices up for show anyway, stops the lamppost looking naked