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Post by driver6540 on Sept 2, 2010 23:02:36 GMT 1
Thanks for the information, so what happened to the 2nd hand B7RLEs? As far as im aware, they are currently being painted/prepared for service. Ive seen three just awaiting lettering/logos at Rigby road. Sadly they looked a lot smarter in their previous Anglian livery than they do now. I am not a fan of the new black/yellow (distressed wasp) livery and IMO certainly dosent suit the wright eclipse body.
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Post by LukePA on Sept 3, 2010 21:09:32 GMT 1
The Centros will make their debut on Monday 6th September on Service 1 which will displace the tridents to Service 14
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Post by kendall17 on Sept 3, 2010 21:52:36 GMT 1
Blackpool got some Solos on order? Some black & yellow ones in the yard of Optare this eve.
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Sept 4, 2010 16:59:55 GMT 1
Do low floor vehicles operate on the St Annes services (7, 11 and 17)
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Post by LukePA on Sept 4, 2010 21:46:22 GMT 1
Service 7 is Solos, Service 11 is a mixture of Deltas,Olympians at the minute and service 17 Delta, Excel and Solo but will soon be B7LEs
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Sept 5, 2010 10:15:40 GMT 1
Service 7 is Solos, Service 11 is a mixture of Deltas,Olympians at the minute and service 17 Delta, Excel and Solo but will soon be B7LEs Cheers for the info, am I right to assume that route 17 will be 100% low floor by end of October? Is their a chance that the 11 will be low floor by then as well or will it stay mixed?
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Post by mollman on Sept 7, 2010 17:43:47 GMT 1
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Sept 7, 2010 21:30:43 GMT 1
The new livery may be acceptable if the previous livery was worse, but replacing a dozen different bright and breezy liveries in a bright and breezy town, with a mainly black livery is really shockingly awful.
There was rarely wrong allocated buses on the wrong routes in Blackpool too, so Metro Coastlines had a strong impact.
The silver swoosh looks like Transdev's 36 on a budget.
Regarding the DDA deadline, with what is going on in the country generally, all plans can be dropped. If it is decided that it is too expensive to meet, it'll be postponed.
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Post by timelesstable on Sept 8, 2010 7:25:02 GMT 1
Regarding the DDA deadline, with what is going on in the country generally, all plans can be dropped. If it is decided that it is too expensive to meet, it'll be postponed. Do you really think the DDA plans will be postponed when there is a high level of Government support to the Bus Industry?
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Post by mollman on Sept 8, 2010 20:55:06 GMT 1
Depends how much government support there's going to be after the spending review (we may not have any non-comercial bus services left)
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Post by timelesstable on Sept 8, 2010 22:22:57 GMT 1
Depends how much government support there's going to be after the spending review (we may not have any non-comercial bus services left) It is also possible that some of the Commercial services will also suffer by way of reduced frequency, if Government funding is reduced, i.e. fuel subsidy
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Post by timelesstable on Oct 15, 2010 19:49:43 GMT 1
Metro Friday 15th Oct page 7.
Bus drivers "too fat" for their job, two Blackpool bus drivers have been suspended for being overweight. The men were allegedly told to lose 7lbs each.
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Post by driver6540 on Nov 2, 2010 22:04:57 GMT 1
Metro Friday 15th Oct page 7. Bus drivers "too fat" for their job, two Blackpool bus drivers have been suspended for being overweight. The men were allegedly told to lose 7lbs each. Oh well, I know now where not to apply should i fancy a career change. A lifelong love of best bitter and pork pies have transformed this would be adonis into a right porker.
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