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Post by westyorkshirebus on Oct 19, 2013 19:19:23 GMT 1
Hopefully not too much of a Christmas rush as its only a streetlite once an hour!
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Post by A1YBG on Oct 20, 2013 10:02:01 GMT 1
Hopefully not too much of a Christmas rush as its only a streetlite once an hour! Not forgetting 2 double decks are due soon for the service expansions! Sent from my GT-N7100 using proboards
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Post by Jack on Oct 20, 2013 14:47:09 GMT 1
Hopefully not too much of a Christmas rush as its only a streetlite once an hour! Not forgetting 2 double decks are due soon for the service expansions! Sent from my GT-N7100 using proboards Do you they actually have a full O-license now? As deckers seem daft if they can only have 16 seats!
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Post by A1YBG on Oct 20, 2013 18:49:20 GMT 1
They have full capacity on the streetlamps.
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Oct 21, 2013 8:29:22 GMT 1
Not forgetting 2 double decks are due soon for the service expansions! Sent from my GT-N7100 using proboards Do you they actually have a full O-license now? As deckers seem daft if they can only have 16 seats! Good question, I can still only find the original 2 vehicle Restricted O-license. Anyone have any idea what O-license they are running all this on at the moment? Given the TCs attitude to operators they feel have been circumventing or ignoring the rules (and a case could certainly be made that SGI haven't been adhering to the letter of the law let alone the spirit) I wouldn't be surprised to find they are now having trouble getting a full O-license and the application being refused in the end.
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Oct 23, 2013 17:28:20 GMT 1
I've just heard from a friend about the funniest comment on Metro's Facebook page you'll ever read, someone has complained to Metro that SGI are harrassing them to use the new 269! Heard it all now, how can someone telling people about a new service be called harrassment!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 22:07:01 GMT 1
I've just heard from a friend about the funniest comment on Metro's Facebook page you'll ever read, someone has complained to Metro that SGI are harrassing them to use the new 269! Heard it all now, how can someone telling people about a new service be called harrassment! Also SGI are telling people in dewsbury bus station that arriva are soon to put there prices up on 26th October,Im guessing this is a lie as its first ive heard of a price increase?
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Post by A1YBG on Oct 24, 2013 12:40:16 GMT 1
Let the bus wars begin......
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Oct 24, 2013 19:37:05 GMT 1
I've just heard from a friend about the funniest comment on Metro's Facebook page you'll ever read, someone has complained to Metro that SGI are harrassing them to use the new 269! Heard it all now, how can someone telling people about a new service be called harrassment! It gets even better, his mates now complained! So too has an Arriva driver! It'll be whole of Dewsbury complaining next! What's in the Dewsbury water nowadays to make people so grumpy with a bus company trying to promote it's services? Is this a weird tactic from Arriva?
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Oct 25, 2013 8:18:02 GMT 1
I've just heard from a friend about the funniest comment on Metro's Facebook page you'll ever read, someone has complained to Metro that SGI are harrassing them to use the new 269! Heard it all now, how can someone telling people about a new service be called harrassment! It gets even better, his mates now complained! So too has an Arriva driver! It'll be whole of Dewsbury complaining next! What's in the Dewsbury water nowadays to make people so grumpy with a bus company trying to promote it's services? Is this a weird tactic from Arriva? Depends how they are doing it, anything beyond a person with some promotional stuff available to answer questions is going to get very wearing, very quickly - especially if it continues beyond a temporary promotional thing to become routine. If you have a company official coming up to you everyday as you wait for the Arriva bus to try and persuade you to catch their bus, and then do the same to the next person to arrive, and so on, it can become quite an intimidating to many passengers and just plain annoying to everyone else - this sort of thing can become counter productive quite quickly if you keep doing it as the other operators passengers can develop a defensive siege mentality towards their existing operator against the people trying to get them to use the competition. I have to admit I got a little wary over using the Derby-Nottingham express when the competition kicked off between Trent Barton & Your Bus as both companies had teams of people at Derby Bus Station trying to tempt passengers onto each bus and sell tickets before you boarded, fortunately it didn't last long and settled down to ticket sellers available but they would leave you alone unless you approached them. No one wants to have to justify their choice of operator to a stranger when all they want to do is get to work or go home, and all it takes is adding a question like "why not?" to a conversation when asking a passenger to catch your bus to step over the line.
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Post by timelesstable on Oct 31, 2013 14:58:12 GMT 1
Their new streetlite was on the 284 today. They seem to have gone for the door forward version, didn't catch the reg however. MK63 XAM
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Post by deerfold on Nov 6, 2013 23:55:27 GMT 1
Their website is dreadful with spelling mistakes galore. The timetables only show times for Monday - Friday but neglect to mention that's when they're for - odd as they do run 7 days a week. www.sgict.org/ticketYou'd think they could spell the name of their biggest rival!
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Post by Arriva Wakefield on Nov 7, 2013 9:27:55 GMT 1
Their website is dreadful with spelling mistakes galore. The timetables only show times for Monday - Friday but neglect to mention that's when they're for - odd as they do run 7 days a week. www.sgict.org/ticketYou'd think they could spell the name of their biggest rival! The same company that has a bus advertising a withdrawn service!
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Post by ratty on Nov 7, 2013 11:27:02 GMT 1
(Tongue in cheek!!) What's a senoir pass please???
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Post by davopazza on Nov 7, 2013 14:01:46 GMT 1
I think metro have a new ticket option. Metro Day Rides.
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Post by timelesstable on Nov 7, 2013 14:33:38 GMT 1
There was a sign in the window by the door of one of their buses advising that fares will be or already have increased from £2:00 to £2:50 (25%) It drove off before I could read anymore.
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Post by A1YBG on Nov 7, 2013 14:54:18 GMT 1
They have modified the website removed their own timetable and replaced with links to metro sites times. They have also changed the arriva name corrected. Still senoir and metro rides on there. Also they have added the conditions of carriage as requested by some passengers.
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Post by Craig on Nov 7, 2013 22:01:42 GMT 1
Their conditions of carriage are pretty exhaustive, perhaps the most professional aspect of the web site so far, not least because a spell checker appears to have been employed.
There may be more highlights but a couple of terms and conditions I noticed:
"If, on boarding the vehicle, the passenger is asked to pay a fare believed to be incorrect, the passenger is asked to pay the fare requested and then refer the issue to Careline" is this a regular occurrence, deemed worthy of inclusion here? If so, why the vague wording. And what or who is Careline?
"If a passenger is able to pay for their journey, but the driver is unable to give change, the passenger can choose either to obtain change from someone else (provided the bus is not delayed) or to overpay for their journey and receive an overpaid fare slip." Good in theory, but who is the customer to obtain change from whilst not holding up the service? Presumably they can't wander off to the nearest newsagent, so are they expected to ask around the (maximum 16) customers already on the bus to see what change can be cobbled together? They really are embracing the spirit of community transport there!
"Passengers are not permitted to buy two or more tickets if this is cheaper than buying one ticket for their journey" Any clues here? Are SGI planning on developing a bizarre National Rail style system where two tickets could make a saving over just one? Is there any fare scale in existence where this could happen?
I'm pleased to know the 200 is imminent and I can't wait to check out its inevitably tight and impractical timetable. Also it appears from the twitter feed that they are taking on Arriva's 254 at some point, along with all the other mooted services. What a network it will be!
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Post by deerfold on Nov 25, 2013 18:41:53 GMT 1
I'm pleased to know the 200 is imminent and I can't wait to check out its inevitably tight and impractical timetable. Also it appears from the twitter feed that they are taking on Arriva's 254 at some point, along with all the other mooted services. What a network it will be! Is that what startring on the 7/12/2013!!!! means? I think this must be the only "community" bus company that I've seen that just copies or does slight variants on another company's routes. The Condition (sic) of Carriage appears to be a cut and paste job largely based on this: www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/greater_manchester/assets/pdfs/about_us/Conditions_of_Carriage.pdfThat is probably why both contain the paragraph: In the First document it then talks about different types of ticket, in the SGI one it then doesn't mention anything about tickets. Can you breach copyright on someone's Conditions of Carriage?
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Nov 25, 2013 21:57:52 GMT 1
Just looked up the 200 timetable on Journey Planner for it's start date on Sat 7th Dec but can only get the times for Thornhill to White Rose, leaves Thornhill at 7.10am then hourly to 4.10pm then at 5.58pm, 7.03pm, 9pm short to Dewsbury only and 10pm to White Rose. Route appears to be direct up Leeds Road rather than round the houses to Shaw Cross then via normal 202/3 route. Journey times are 10 mins Thornhill to Dewsbury with a 5 min layover in Dewsbury then 10 mins to Shaw Cross and 15 mins Shaw Cross to White Rose most of the day. These times also apply for the rest of the week as well.
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Post by A1YBG on Nov 27, 2013 22:15:46 GMT 1
2 new buses coming to SGICT for the 200 and the soon to be half hourly 269. They are 2 Eclipes Scanias which are being refurbished at the moment.
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Post by A1YBG on Nov 27, 2013 22:29:03 GMT 1
They are launching a 228 soon too. Dewsbury-hecky-batley-birstall-leeds. Sent from my GT-N7100 using proboards
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Post by rst1987 on Nov 27, 2013 23:08:33 GMT 1
They are launching a 228 soon too. Dewsbury-hecky-batley-birstall-leeds. Sent from my GT-N7100 using proboards Seems this company is expanding rapidly and having a real go against arriva for bus routes...
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Nov 28, 2013 9:46:10 GMT 1
They are launching a 228 soon too. Dewsbury-hecky-batley-birstall-leeds. Sent from my GT-N7100 using proboards Seems this company is expanding rapidly and having a real go against arriva for bus routes... Does anyone know what O-license they are running under? What it says on their legal lettering would help but a look at the license disc in the front window would tell us for certain. I can't find anything other than their existing Restricted O-license and there aren't any services registered on this and neither the 200 or 269 appear on the VOSA website (this isn't definitive as they remove registrations from the website if they are processing a change at the Licensing Office) but if they still only have their restricted license then they can only have 2 16-seaters which is not what they are running at the moment. I'm glad I don't need to worry about West Yorkshire anymore as someone seems to be playing fast & loose at the moment with the regulations.
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Post by wbc on Nov 28, 2013 11:28:16 GMT 1
Is any of their work actually registered at the moment? I seem to recall a cancellation for the 284 been processed when they changed to SGICT.
I've just been on the VOSA website, whilst on there I had a look at their details and I could only find the restricted license for 2 vehicles and no registrations for the 200 or 269 as you said, the 284 is only on as a cancellation.
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