TonyK
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« Reply #270 on: March 28, 2018, 16:40:43 » |
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So, why can't we in Greater Bristol, have Avon Transport Executive?
**Cough, cough!** **Splutter!** **Etc!** Did someone just say the thrice-cursed A-word? Any mention of any form of a transport executive has South Glos and north somerset councils frothing at the mouth and shouting "Avon! Remember Avon!!!" Now, I shall have to wash the tea from my living room wall, and make myself another cuppa. |
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« Reply #271 on: March 28, 2018, 22:16:00 » |
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« Reply #272 on: March 28, 2018, 22:37:15 » |
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It appears from the image printed with the article that the buses 'could look like' left-hand drive vehicles. I wonder if arranging for the buses to drive on the opposite side of the road to the rest of the traffic could be the main issue causing the delay? |
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« Reply #273 on: March 28, 2018, 22:49:30 » |
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It appears from the image printed with the article that the buses 'could look like' left-hand drive vehicles. I wonder if arranging for the buses to drive on the opposite side of the road to the rest of the traffic could be the main issue causing the delay? Not as big a delay as running them in Nantes! The cut-and-paste merchants in the Bristol post couldn't even be bothered to cover up the branding as TAN ( Transports de l'agglomération Nantaise) Busway. |
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TonyK
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« Reply #274 on: March 28, 2018, 23:15:29 » |
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More concerns about Megabust, this time from the WECA» scrutineers.
You could get in bother using that name. It's MetroBust.  Cllr Clarke is of the Green persuasion, and is often heard saying he has been misled. In this case, he is absolutely right, and he is in the perfect place to ask some serious questions. However, he performs intensive scrutiny on WECA, using an intensive scrute, and the new Metro Mayor Tim Bowles will say he inherited it, although he does want to open six more MetroBust routes. New railways follow the Governance for Railway Investment Projects guidelines, and were this a railway, it would be at the latter end of GRIP▸ 6: Construction, Testing and Commission. But MetroBust is governed by the Conventions on Regulation of Automotive Projects, and is in the middle of CRAP 5: Denial, Misleading, and Blame Shifting. Everyone still involved in this shambles will start trying to blame everybody else. |
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« Reply #275 on: March 28, 2018, 23:38:11 » |
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Another new acronym there. DMBS!
Edit: Lazy spolling.
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« Reply #276 on: March 30, 2018, 00:25:00 » |
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...new Metro Mayor Tim Bowles...
Just to be clear, Peter Bowles is not the new Metro Mayor. It just seems like that because he doesn't appear to have done much in the good God is it really nearly a year that he has been in office. |
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #277 on: March 30, 2018, 06:58:58 » |
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...new Metro Mayor Tim Bowles...
Just to be clear, Peter Bowles is not the new Metro Mayor. It just seems like that because he doesn't appear to have done much in the good God is it really nearly a year that he has been in office. Who is Peter Bowles then ? |
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« Reply #278 on: March 30, 2018, 09:35:39 » |
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...new Metro Mayor Tim Bowles...
Just to be clear, Peter Bowles is not the new Metro Mayor. It just seems like that because he doesn't appear to have done much in the good God is it really nearly a year that he has been in office. Who is Peter Bowles then ? An actor. Best known for the sitcoms "Only When I Laugh" and "To The Manor Born" |
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« Reply #279 on: March 30, 2018, 10:48:13 » |
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...new Metro Mayor Tim Bowles...
Just to be clear, Peter Bowles is not the new Metro Mayor. It just seems like that because he doesn't appear to have done much in the good God is it really nearly a year that he has been in office. Who is Peter Bowles then ? An actor. Best known for the sitcoms "Only When I Laugh" .... Oh. I see, "only when I laugh", synonymous with Metrobu*(*), "now don't make me laugh". |
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« Reply #280 on: April 04, 2018, 18:18:06 » |
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Tuesday 29th May given as the start date for the Emersons Green - Centre route via UWE.
Introductory offer of 13 free days of transport until June 9th.
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TonyK
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« Reply #281 on: April 04, 2018, 19:14:07 » |
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Rather generous start-up offer. I'm sure Nottingham's trams were free for a day. This could be an anti-climax, time will tell. 3 buses per hour doesn't sound very Metro though, and there is no Sunday service.
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« Reply #282 on: April 04, 2018, 20:43:55 » |
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And First West to run the service, what a surprise.
With a 20 minute interval service, what will happen to the X48? The route is virtually identical.
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« Reply #283 on: April 04, 2018, 21:25:53 » |
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Elephants coming to Bristol, white ones I fear.
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« Reply #284 on: April 05, 2018, 03:58:09 » |
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And First West to run the service, what a surprise.
With a 20 minute interval service, what will happen to the X48? The route is virtually identical.
Service UWE from Frenchay campas also follows same route and frequency reduced to every 20 minutes from end of April. Is that the ploy by the promoters, withdraw th X48 and UWE services and replace those services with MetroBus route M3 with free travel for the first 13 days and hey presto they will proclaim instant success with Joe Public of MetroBus. I bet we won't hear a peep out of the MetroBus promoters after the free trial period when patronage drops off due to the higher fares and users revert back to using the 5, 47, 48, 48A, 49, 70, 71, 72 and new route 49A as I have heard that the cost of a dayrider will be the same as the Bristol Outer Zone Dayrider at £6.40 compared with the Bristol Inner Zone Dayrider at £4.00 currently available on both the X48 and the UWE services. |
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