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464 rochdale bus
As from 29th may the last 464 bus from accrington to haslingden /rochdale will be at 850 there are a few folk who need this bus to get to work hollands pie shift workers for one
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yet another naff up by Rossendale Transport, they will be out of business soon with the way they are going
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Yup, like I said , they don't give one about their passengers as they have a monopoly on the route, change the times and double the fares, they don't care. ( They don't respond to emails and complaints either..:rolleyes:)
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Stopped using them, go for the first bus now which is Lancashire United, fare £1.60 compared to £2.20 for RT and I now walk home, sod em.
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why blame rossendale transport .... the late buses were subsidised by lcc ... lcc are stopping the subsidies ... so if they cant afford to run them then why run them ....
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because like Lindsay said, they are useless, they have extortionate fares and they don't even get back to you when you email them, Jen you can't keep defending them forever hun
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just telling the reason why the late buses are being stopped ....
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Yes I know it is now a private company owned by the council but I bet most of the management moved across from the council so they will still have the council way of running things firmly in there heads. |
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that was back in 1986 .... surely you werent expecting the staff to be fired on the day it went private are you .. so who would run the company then ...
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Slightly later bus on Fridays only, the X41 departs Accy Peel St 2145.
Shocking that the council will allow this (the 464 situation) to happen on a major route like this. Just think, only a few months back they wanted to spend millions putting in 24-hour bus lanes. |
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The problem with many public services is that they don't get rid of incompetent staff. If someone is not good enough to be doing a job they should be moved to a level they are competent. Housing is probably a good example. If the Councils had run their Council House departments properly there would have been no need to sell of the houses. They would all have been well maintained, tenants would have had problems dealt with rapidly. What did we have though? Houses in a poor state of maintenance required lots of money spending on them because the Council badly managed the housing stock. Maybe rents were to low to be able to maintain the houses but if that was the case it shows poor management. I am sure the bus company is still controlled by the council even if only loosely. The fact that all the staff just moved across in 1986 would suggest it would be badly managed from the start and is probably still suffering all these years later. I wonder if the staff are still on the same terms and conditions including pensions as the Council staff are? |
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1986 was a long time ago. Since then they will have had plenty of time to recruit overpaid management at salaries (what they imagine) is competitive with the private sector. Think NHS for example.
What you have here is a form of blackmail all down the line. The bus company won't run the service without the same level of subsidy. Then the council pass the blame to the ConDem cuts. In other words, cough up the dough to continue with our extravagent lifestyle, or we'll make you unpopular, all down the line. I think it is outrageous that an area of town on one of the major roads in the borough should be entirely without public transport after 2050. They wouldn't think of that in London I can assure you. |
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The idea of changing the timings during the day would make sense
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there's a piece about it in this weeks Observer
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Rossendale Transport have a monopoly on the route and are having a laugh here. If some independent came in they would be well and truly shafted, extortionate fares, drivers who have all the customer service attributes of a bag of cat litter, and now limiting the times of services. Combined with their inability to reply to emails, brilliant ! NOT!!
They are pants and we need to tell them ! |
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What I will say is just because staff moved over from the council does not make them bad staff at all.... things run under the council can be run completely different when transferred due to the reduction of red tape so some of these same people can then implement things that would improve service that under council ownership could not happen.... and no I am not suggesting that this is the same for this bus company, as people have said the transfer was 25 years ago!! |
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These buses will last a little longer, Rossendale Council are subsidising them for 2 months
Bus service wins a reprieve - for now | Rossendale Free Press - menmedia.co.uk |
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