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Post by steviewevie on Sept 12, 2021 7:53:54 GMT 1
Friday afternoon I passed an X1 running from Holmfirth to Wakefield (an ex Tiger Optare Tempo in full Team Pennine livery) but on Saturday a 435 appeared running in the same direction (a Tiger liveried Tempo). Should it be an X1 or a 435? Perhaps it depends on which livery your bus has!
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Post by stephen01 on Sept 12, 2021 9:14:17 GMT 1
Friday afternoon I passed an X1 running from Holmfirth to Wakefield (an ex Tiger Optare Tempo in full Team Pennine livery) but on Saturday a 435 appeared running in the same direction (a Tiger liveried Tempo). Should it be an X1 or a 435? Perhaps it depends on which livery your bus has! All should be displaying X1 (which is all 5 routes merged) |
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Post by SCH117X on Sept 12, 2021 9:14:32 GMT 1
Pesumably the displays have not been updated on the non TP liveried vehicles; also with all the hype on the X1 vehicles features they probably do not want lower standard vehicles running as X1s.
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Post by steviewevie on Sept 12, 2021 10:22:42 GMT 1
Obviously they should all be X1 as that is what the service now is. I think yesterdays 435 must have been a blip. However, I am baffled by Team Pannine's decision to make all the route variations 'X1' for simplicity but then to qualify by letters in the timetable, variations of that route. Surely this shoots the simplified route in the foot. In my opinion those journeys which differ from the X1 route should have a different route number so that passengers can easily understand the route variation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 12:31:33 GMT 1
Arriva had a similar issue when the 481 got changed to the 118, there was a few commanders I saw displaying 481 still when it got changed to 118. True, I caught it once with a decker on it not long after the change which ran as a 481 because neither the driver or the drivers on the adjacent stands could find the correct display so they came to the assumption that it hadn't been re-programmed |
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Post by Steve Macz403 on Sept 12, 2021 21:45:50 GMT 1
It’s at times like this Roller Blinds are more of a life saver, as they can display anything, rather than Hanover displays. But I prefer Digital Displays as they make the bus more modern.
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Post by driver6540 on Sept 12, 2021 22:15:25 GMT 1
Since the introduction of the X1, most boards (and iv'e seen many) have been run by POTN Eclipse's all correctly displaying X1. Being "old school" i still prefer roller blind desti's though.
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Sept 13, 2021 9:24:05 GMT 1
It’s at times like this Roller Blinds are more of a life saver, as they can display anything, rather than Hanover displays. But I prefer Digital Displays as they make the bus more modern. True for numbers, though not necessarily the case if you use lots of letters, but not for place names. They were fine if your network is fairly static but if you are changing things or expanding it is a massive issue (& a complication when transferring between depots) as it is far more complicated & expensive to update or replace a roller blind than to update a digital blind. There can always be one or two vehicles that get missed in the update process, even more so if you are making changes on a Saturday (as buses go out earlier on Sat mornings vs Sun mornings whilst late finishes on Friday night, like Saturday night, make it difficult to get everything the night before), if a bus was back late or out early and so not being present when the people going around to do the updates are there or a vehicle is in the engineering bay and not accessible and gets sent out before someone can get to it. |
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