tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post216430434885210106..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Honiton Revisitedfatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-44772830911710122712012-08-29T11:39:57.629+01:002012-08-29T11:39:57.629+01:00The Green Motion business model is to offer excell...The Green Motion business model is to offer excellent service to anyone who wishes to hire a vehicle, Green Motion is not trying to take people away from the railway and as you have me pictured above I would welcome a conversation with you to reassure you that here at Green Motion Northampton we are fully supportive of the rail network and regular use it when a car is not needed. I would appreciate a call from you on the Green Motion Northampton phone number 01604 531025 as I feel this is a great expansion of the services provided at a railway station. Best Regards Andy Higgins.Andy Higginsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-16486429732137560722012-07-27T18:26:19.367+01:002012-07-27T18:26:19.367+01:00The situation with the stops at Honiton Station is...The situation with the stops at Honiton Station is perhaps even more puzzling than has been suggested.<br />Firstly, Google Maps appears to show 'transit stops', rather than 'bus stops', and therefore shows 5 stops in the vicinity of the station, 4 of which are bus stops and the other is the railway station itself. The number of bus stops shown on Google is therefore the same as on traveline maps, so would at least appear to be consistent.<br /><br />There is a useful feature in Google Maps where if you click on the stop itself, a window appears naming the stop and with a link to the appropriate site to give details of the next departures. For Honiton Station, this links to 'trainline.com' and for the four bus stops to 'transportdirect.info'. So it is fairly easy to establish which buses stop where, and the stops A and B on the road outside the station (B and C on Steve's local map)are served by routes 367 and 380. However, there is no sign of these stops on Google Streetview, and as fbb says, 'there are no stops there'.<br /><br />Even more puzzling, the fourth bus stop - the one at the bottom of the steps in fbb's photo appears to have no bus services at all according to the transportdirect link, and is not shown on Google Streetview.<br /><br />Assuming that 367 and 380 both stop somewhere near the station, a number of questions arise<br />a) Where are these stops ?<br />b) Are they marked ?<br />c) Does anyone use these services to get to the station ?<br /><br />Answers on a postcard please !NMcBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05494964262745285249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-62872439592178382012-07-27T16:10:38.928+01:002012-07-27T16:10:38.928+01:00Yes, the onward travel information from National R...Yes, the onward travel information from National Rail is strange. As far as I can see, it's not just wrong, it's two different sorts of wrong.<br /><br />On the NR website, there's a copy of the poster diaplayed at the station - but there's also a "local area map". For Honiton, this map shows three bus stops (instead of two, as on the poster) and four bus services (instead of three). For Salisbury, the differences are even greater - and it doesn't seem to be that one is just more out-of-date than the other. It's wackier than that.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01965936499218384410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-31310543092262809042012-07-27T09:31:49.891+01:002012-07-27T09:31:49.891+01:00Interesting that we have exactly the same problem ...Interesting that we have exactly the same problem at Poole Station where the leaflet racks have to be filled to a corporate layout, and staff locally cannot change them. The staff will happily take the Route One leaflet and the local bus map but can only put them on the shelf in front of the ticket window, where they are only seen by people buying tickets to leave Poole!. Trying to get SWT management to address the problem is a waste of time. Want an extra rack for bus leaflets? Forget it!<br />With regard to the onward connections poster, these are as you surmise generated by some database somewhere. One appeared at Poole that was so inaccurate we actually succeeded in having it removed. A suggestion that perhaps they send the proof to us to check next time was of course ignored.<br />With regard to bus stops on Google Maps, it is simply a matter of them not updating the stop data more than once every couple of years. As you know Naptan is updated every week, but beyond that it's up to the user to decide on the frequency they take the data.<br />It's very frustrating for those of us who try to do things properly being constantly thwarted by corporate brick walls.<br />Ken Traveline Dorset & Poole B.C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-79779785363970068322012-07-27T08:55:44.243+01:002012-07-27T08:55:44.243+01:00Agreed; but that is not the "Green Motion&quo...Agreed; but that is not the "Green Motion" business model, I suspect! Certainly it is not the thrust of their advertising.fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-57090396389478695962012-07-27T08:44:26.869+01:002012-07-27T08:44:26.869+01:00Car hire at stations for local journeys (in the &q...Car hire at stations for local journeys (in the "car club" vein) makes sense at stations for the last bit of a journey where the bus doesn't suit. No worse than a taxi.<br /><br />NeilNeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739094192244593533noreply@blogger.com