tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post2740958159074190278..comments2024-03-29T08:14:43.839+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Is it Nuts? Or Necessary? [5]fatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-58967407788036488032014-06-22T17:44:59.789+01:002014-06-22T17:44:59.789+01:00I don't think the good residents of Porthcurno...I don't think the good residents of Porthcurno would be too amused to have their bus service reduced to a seasonal service. I assume you're not envisaging reducing the Mousehole service, which needs to be half-hourly even in Winter. Much of the service you're suggesting was in fact the old Western Greyhound 504 which was given the chop and replaced by diverting the 1 etc to Lamorna Cove and also the recent introduction of route 7 (Lands End-St Just-Zennor), which, incidentally, has next to no publicity as it's run by a community bus association to whom marketing is anathema. Said operator is still advertising the 509 which transferred to Travel Cornwall several weeks ago.Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-67212399907704756452014-06-22T17:31:38.717+01:002014-06-22T17:31:38.717+01:00Double deckers regularly serve Chywoone Crescent. ...Double deckers regularly serve Chywoone Crescent. You're right about Lamorna Wink, though.Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-27507488578899594432014-06-21T20:45:09.271+01:002014-06-21T20:45:09.271+01:00So, how to make Penzance to Land End less of a mes...So, how to make Penzance to Land End less of a mess? <br />Well, to start the journey times end to end are horribly uncompetitive compared to travelling by car, so the main destinations should have an hourly year-round more direct service - i.e. Penzance-Newlyn-St. Buryan-Sennen Cove-Land's End. The remaining coastal part (i.e. Lamorna and Porthcurno) could then operate as a more seasonal service, probably using minibuses, which would also have the potential to be extended into a Coasthopper-style service for the whole area, possibly even incorporating the Penzance-Mousehole and Penzance-Marazion-St Ives services. Now that would be a more thorough rethink, wouldn't it?Anonybusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-14354720298015808272014-06-21T11:39:47.667+01:002014-06-21T11:39:47.667+01:00I suspect that FBB in many respects is like all bu...I suspect that FBB in many respects is like all bus people in being rather observant wherever he goes. I think everyone subconsciously does this - comparing the bus service where they are to what they know. To suggest that people can't comment constructively on an area they visit because they don't live there is rather strange behaviour. I certainly do it when I visit somewhere different to where I live but I don't blog about it. Although I could. <br />One wonders if the OP anon poster is recently relocated there, for work reasons given the tone of his posting. <br />Certainly have seen postings anonymously like that before elsewhere, although one cannot but help draw a connection to someone formerly working on the Isle of Wight who was always very defensive of Southern Vectis, to the point of attacking the other poster rather than engaging positively. Such postings seemed to stop after someone left Vectis in 2012. The personality is now known to be working for First in the South West. <br />Your defence of FDC is somewhat interesting in that respect. All very fine to defend your work, but no need to attack other people because they don't agree with your take on things.<br />I'd like to see FDC improving the vehicles it uses a little bit - Camborne is solid Olympian with a tiny number of low floor double deckers, all of which lag behind other areas, but then FDC has always been a home for the cast off stock at the end of its operating life. Some of them look in poor condition, which decries the excellent engineering standards, which have to be up to a certain standard mechanically with MOT equivalent inspections every few weeks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-91848718369056950472014-06-20T09:36:51.214+01:002014-06-20T09:36:51.214+01:00No buses at all between all the guest houses and B...No buses at all between all the guest houses and B&Bs of Penzance/Newlyn and Porthcurno - summer service between Alexandra Road/Western Promenade/Newlyn and Lands End/Sennen Cove halved. As 'Anon' said at 7.13am, there just needs to be a better way of making these timetables understood by visitors to the area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-57246415073100458602014-06-20T08:08:21.931+01:002014-06-20T08:08:21.931+01:00Reply to top anonymous. First of all I have never ...Reply to top anonymous. First of all I have never been an "armchair" blogger. I have visited Penzance on a couple of occasions and have chums who have done likewise. I have discussed the problem of the presentation of these services with a number of knowledgeable locals; all of whom agreed that the service is a mess. <b>That much is a fact.</b> Whether the mess can actually be improved whilst retaining all the links "used by the locals" is more of a political decision than anything else. I have looked (via Streetview) at all the roads involved and am well aware of the constraints. If you read the blog carefully, you will see that I have concluded that my "bright idea" is probably unworkable anyway. The key question is whether <b>more</b> people can be persuaded to travel by bus with a simplified structure - still retaining the essential links. Stagnation is the death of bus services; planners must always be on the lookout for a better way.fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-66943708003012821462014-06-20T07:51:48.875+01:002014-06-20T07:51:48.875+01:00Forgive me for possibly wasting my time (sort of) ...Forgive me for possibly wasting my time (sort of) following this blog and not understanding the main thrust, which I believe is not to re-route the current services, but to present the timetables in a more logical way to enable prospective travellers (and therefore = passengers= customers) to identify when and where they can go.<br />Fully agree about the obscurity of getting to Sennen being customer "unfriendly".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-44398102684105084132014-06-20T07:13:08.729+01:002014-06-20T07:13:08.729+01:00FBB. You should restrict your bus planning to East...FBB. You should restrict your bus planning to East Devon and to the Isle of Wight, not to West Penwith about which you obviously know nothing from over one hundred and thirty miles away. Your proposal ignores where customers actually travel at present, sends buses through miles and miles of fields and forgets that only small vehicles can serve Chywoone Crescent and Lamorna Wink. Camborne and Truro have a very much better knowledge of the needs of 'us locals' in West Penwith than an armchair blogger in England - simply stick to the issue of timetable presentation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com