Leeds City Transport

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 04 Nov, 2012 10:26 pm

raveydavey wrote: Of course things have gone the opposite way now, with buses being heated to an excessive degree all year round. Until some anti social retard opens the window in freezing conditions, they don't feel the draft, but everyone behind them is frozen.An alarm should go off in the drivers 'cockpit' if a window is open below a certain temperature. Anti social passenger should be kicked off and told to walk if they like fresh air that much.What is wrong with those people?

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 04 Nov, 2012 10:31 pm

Oh yes, and people who put their feet up on the back seats. A sensor should go off that makes the seat with their feet on spring back and and act like a catapult in their face.Also a dividing partition on the seats, were as someone who takes up too much room and is being ignorant, you can operate it to act like a vice and squash them up against the window

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 04 Nov, 2012 10:46 pm

Phill for President I say !!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 04 Nov, 2012 10:50 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Phill for President I say !! I'd drive people off the buses and into cars no problem

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 04 Nov, 2012 10:51 pm

majorhoundii wrote: [As for heaters, I recall the Yorkshire Woollen Leyland single deckers having a round chrome covered heater mounted on the bulkhead between the driver's cab and the passenger compartment. The famous Clayton Dewandre heaters no less, and they also had a small bakelite control box high up on the bulkhead on which it was possible to select a desired temperature - I don't think I ever saw anyone using these and, although well intentioned, I think they were just a bit ambitious for the time.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 05 Nov, 2012 1:31 am

Two years ago I came back from halifax on the 509 run by the Halifax Joint Committee.i t was an old bus and the doors had failed to close. It was that really cold time, it was -5c outside. I was very cold.

Post by **mhoulden** » Mon 05 Nov, 2012 1:47 am

I'd quite like stronger sentences for people who think what a bus really needs is some bad music played on a tinny mobile phone speaker. It even has it's own name: sodcasting.Since I bought a scooter a couple of months back I've only used a bus twice and I'm going to let my monthly Metrocard lapse. However as we head into winter I may use buses a bit more as it can get pretty cold moving at 40ish mph in the open.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 05 Nov, 2012 9:52 am

mhoulden wrote: Since I bought a scooter a couple of months back I've only used a bus twice and I'm going to let my monthly Metrocard lapse. However as we head into winter I may use buses a bit more as it can get pretty cold moving at 40ish mph in the open. I think you're very wise and , apart from the cold, there can be dodgy roads on the borderline between dry and wet/icy. I have two motorbikes myself and never go out unless the roads are bone dry and likely to stay so for an hour or two.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Mon 05 Nov, 2012 10:32 am

BLAKEY wrote: mhoulden wrote: Since I bought a scooter a couple of months back I've only used a bus twice and I'm going to let my monthly Metrocard lapse. However as we head into winter I may use buses a bit more as it can get pretty cold moving at 40ish mph in the open. I think you're very wise and , apart from the cold, there can be dodgy roads on the borderline between dry and wet/icy. I have two motorbikes myself and never go out unless the roads are bone dry and likely to stay so for an hour or two. Indeed Blakey,especially given the horrendous state of some of our roads what with bumps,potholes etc...By the way,has anybody heard anymore of what likely changes are going to be in place next April in terms of routes,fares,bus passes etc etcMy mams pass runs out in March and she has had a reminder to re-apply for a new one ???(Please -no mention of the dreaded,ill-concieved,wired up effort that shall not be mentioned....please).

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 05 Nov, 2012 11:01 am

somme1916 wrote: My mams pass runs out in March and she has had a reminder to re-apply for a new one ???(Please -no mention of the dreaded,ill-concieved,wired up effort that shall not be mentioned....please). When the English National Bus Pass was introduced on April 1st 2008 the initial issue was for five years and so millions, literally, of us need new ones from next April. Hopefully the fact that they can be renewed now can be taken as a sign that there is no immediate intention to take them away. If such a black day should come, and if the silver spooned ID-S has his way it will, at least there will just be a small fare to pay as before. As you may know, we now have to pay half fare on the railways, but I suppose that's understandable because the mathematics of the subsidy scheme are beyond the ordinary man.I shall honour the plea in your last bracketted sentence somme