Bloody Transdev AGAIN
 

As a lot of you will have read, Transdev are stopping the number 6 buses going up and down Thwaites road from September 16th, they are also stopping the number 7 going up Wyndsor road, they are redirecting the buses from Blackburn to go via Shadsworth through Ossy instead....so none of the buses go through Intack then through Ossy....this is gonna leave Reece and all his school mates stranded and unable to get a bus directly to Rhyddings school.

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I read end of last week that Pilkingtons were taking over the areas no longer covered by transdev with services 20 & 21, might be worth checking out and they are due to start on sept 17th and transdev weren't meant to stop until the 16th

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I heard something about Pilky's doing some routes too but not sure which

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found it - here's the link

Bus firm?s bid to replace Oswaldtwistle's axed route (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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ooo thanx you two, if they are taking over that route, transdev won't be getting no more bus pass money from me or the kids around here, Pilkys can have it

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They don't deserve anybody's money. They don't even spend any money on customer service training for the majority of their drivers, or if they do it's wasted from what I see of them

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As far as I can gather they are also stopping all service 6&7 buses from seven pm as of 18th of September. So as far as I can see anybody living in Great Harwood has no bus service after seven pm. The excuse for axing the service was that it wasn't being used but when I caught the twenty minutes past nine bus from Blackburn on Saturday night there were between twenty and thirty people on board. Seems to me they don't give a toss about how their decisions will impact on peoples lives!!!!

Of course they don't care they are a business. If the routes are not profitable why should they run them? Would you clean their bus for free? Don't slate Transdev, slate the council who should subsidise it
The primary aim of a bus is to make money not to carry passengers

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The council should not subsidise a bus route by giving our money to a private company. The council should own the bus company like they used to.

I agree Neil however they should be run more efficiently than they were. There were scandalous wastes

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i was talking to an old man in Ossy about this yesterday and he said they are stopping the service going where it does because there are too many elderly people getting on the bus for free, aparently bus companies 'only' get 70p back per elderly/disabled passenger with a free pass

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Oh well sod the people who will be stuck at home because of this decision.

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And yes I will slate a company who hasn't got the bottle to state their intentions before stopping the service. I have spoken to a lot of people who didn't have the faintest idea about this. Plus new timetables were put up on the bus stops yesterday and nowhere on them does it state that this service only runs till the middle of September.

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Thats always been the case wi most business Bernie, People get this daft notion that they are there to serve us, Thats only a secondary thing, Making as much as possible out of us has always been Number1.

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This is all down to Thatcher's ideologically-motivated decision to privatise the bus services back in the 80's. Before that, we had an excellent bus service in the town and surrounding areas. It had its faults but it was a public service run for the benefit of the local population. Now it's just down to profit and sod the interests of the passengers. :(

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I know that,You know that!! but its the plebs that won't admit the fact.:rolleyes:

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For once I am not a pleb ;)

Here here

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:rolleyes:

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Whilst we can see that why have subsequent goverments not done anything to make things better for the general public?

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Can someone put a link up to the Transdev app for real time bus arrivals per stop, per route. It should be handy for next time I'm back up yon.

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that would be impossible Tealeaf, they arrive when they want to arrive, never ontime and are even worse now with the temporary traffic lights on Blackburn Road

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Unless yer carrying summat mate its quicker sodding walking on Blackburn Rd.:rolleyes:

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No...No...No. Forget the timetable and whatever it might say on paper. The buses have a sat-nav transmitter that relays their position to your phone via an App, so you can stay in the pub, slowly finish your pint and then walk outside to the bus stop just as it turns up. You know to the minute what time that will be......are you saying that such a thing does not exist in Accy? They have this in Afganistan....OMG!

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lol, well what do you reckon?

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Fine if you live in Yorkshire - but apparently not in Lancs...

36 iPhone Application ~ Transdev

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Seems they are more advanced in Kabul than Accy then.?:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Aye...streets are a bit cleaner, too.

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As far as I know we are not planning to blow ours up.:eek::D:D

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Exactly. You can't plan because you don't know when they'll turn up...and when they do, then they all turn up at the same time...so which one do you choose?

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http://http://farm3.static.flickr.co...a04ec30245.jpgWas looking for something else but found this, thought I would share

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Share what?:confused:

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Tried to post a link to an image, apologies I Am on my phone a lot of the time, and not as easy sometimes
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/...a04ec30245.jpg

Try that

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Thats fine,proper buses.

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Its been a while since I used one in sync with needing to be somwhere. I cannot rely on them to get me to work on time. Now I am sure on the bus it says something like every thirteen minutes. So if that is the case, why was I am I often waiting 20-30 minutes. I walk most of the time now. If I am late and I have to catch one of those buses from the Town centre to Clayton is it £2.30. Might as well get a taxi for £3 or so

Doesn't it always seem like 3-4 buses pass on the other side of the road whilst you are waiting? I have also had two of them turning up at once, loads of times, Always after waiting ages. Do they stop and meet up at Hyndburn Bridge for a pint??

One particular time I put out my hand and the bus stopped. I then realised it was the wrong bus. I was going to Church from the H&H in Clayton and this one was just going into town-- That was one of those two buses turning up at once days.... I ended up missing the other bus as it drove right passed.

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£2.30 jesus............shows last time caught bus

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been told that Transdev don't intend losing any money from people not buying bus passes anymore because of the route change, they are putting their fares up to cover their loss.....makes me so 'kin mad.....they have a win win situation

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There has been a u-turn with this issue, Lancashire conty council are now going to subsidise the route. So evening buses will run apart from on Sundays:)

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Wonderful, more council tax payers money being given to private firms to run non cost effective services. Maybe they could try and make it cost effective by using smaller vehicles less often

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Smaller vechiles would be the obvious answer but seeing as they've just bought new can't see that happening any time soon. One of the suggestions that was offered was that they reversed the service each hour running it Blackburn, Oswaldtwisle, Accrington, Clayton, Harwood, Rishton one hour then Blackburn, Rishton etc the other hour. Leaving people without any service at all is ludicrous, some students are still at college at the time they were proposing to stop the buses.