But First - A Question For Stagecoach
Oh, there it is, mixed in with University bus passes and school buses in East Sussex.
Despite this high spending "It's All On Line" lavishness, was now a good time to launch a new route costing your company extra resources?
... might it not have been better to concentrate on your existing customers? And even the lovely open top ride at Hastings?
Maybe wait for staff stability until dishing out the doughnuts!
And So To Leeds ...
In early 2019, First Bus celebrated the first anniversary of their "Leeds City" brand - a truly original name for a bus operation.
This presaged the arrival of loadsa new buses in two tone green with brightly coloured wedges front, and slashes rear.
Route branding had arrived! Probably the most distinctive was the red appendage for route 1 from Beeston (south of city centre) to Holt Park (in the north).
Hold fast, quoth fbb's keen and observant reader, did your picture (blog, yesterday) with the SYPTE bus stop ...
... not show a service 10 (red wedge) at Beeston?
Indeed it did, and take a house point for observation. The cutting of cross-city route 1 did not go down a bundle with the locals ...
... and the through service was soon re-instated. Red wedged buses trundled once again from Beeston via "City" station, University, Headingley and on to Holt Park.
Power to The People!
Well done, the Wolfie Smiths of Beeston.
Hold on to that phrase "through service was soon re-instated" - it will come in useful later.
So, how come correspondent Colin espied (but sadly did not photograph) a bus travelling happily towards Beeston (red wedge) showing the destination "Headingley Line"?
As per the EastEnders catch-phrase, "Woss goin' on?"
And what is a dark blue wedge doing en route to Holt Park?
And wasn't route 1 once "coloured" brown?
Even brown to Beeston ...
... all the way to Holt Park.
But when we look at First's web site (remember, "It's All On Line") we find some very different colours on their recently published network map. Beeston is now a weak and pallid MUD colour (not red) ...
... and service 1 doesn't get to Holt Park any more ...
... and it is YELLOW (not red)!
RED, BROWN, MUD, YELLOW, DARK BLUE????
The "old" 1 to Holt Park has become route 8 ...
... also (with 6), in yellow.
Indeed, "Woss goin' on?"
Events, Dear Boy, Events
It was Harold Macmillan, who, when asked what his problems were as PM, uttered affably the above epithet! A similar thought might flutter through the mind of the management at WIGHTLINK.
Vikky has not long returned to service after over a month's "outage" due to its engines blowing up (or getting ready to blow up?). fbb likes the phrase "heavy berthing", a gentle euphemism for clouting the terminal with an almighty thump!
Spot the damage.
Try again!
Not a huge dent!
Because of this, the company's prestigious hot-shot state-of-the-art (what art?) ferry was out of service for THREE DAYS!
And from SHEFFIELD SUPERTRAM. On-line generally, "good service":-
Web site (as in "It's all On line") - everything fine and dandy.
Or you could link to Twitter - proud to serve with live service ...
In reality, if you look carefully ...
... things are well and truly awry!
There is something very wrong with the electric string! It is, to use a technical term beloved of electrical engineers, busted!
You are advised by Stagecoach to use alternative buses; which is a fat lot of good for the Norfolk Park Estate which only has trams! It's a hefty climb up the hill.
Events, dear boy, events!
Next Leodensian blog : Thursday 5th August
SC website very poor & now no printed publicity, how the mighty has fallen!!!
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