The dreaded FIRST BUS!

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 01 Oct, 2010 8:57 pm

The 4's boast of every 10 minutes is a joke. It would have to be evenly spread to do that and you are more likely to see 10 together than one every 10. The pilots aren't blessed with too much common either as they love to block roads in the city centre just to hang on to the back of the "one in front" rahter than hang about where they aren't doing too much blocking like Infirmary St.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 01 Oct, 2010 9:27 pm

The sooner that First Bus loses all its transport rights and give them to other companies the better it should be as far as I'm concerned. I'm utterly annoyed at the regular missing of buses on the 35 route.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Sat 02 Oct, 2010 12:08 am

Do they still run the purple slugs in York ?The fleet is only 20+ that I know of over both cities,given the reports of bunching some areas must be missing a lot of timetabled services.Have First abondoned the X64 Leeds-York service ?Have only observed Coastliner services on the A64 recently.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 02 Oct, 2010 12:13 am

My Missus works in York. She catches a purple slug to work on a regular basis, yesterday being the most recent.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 02 Oct, 2010 1:06 am

dogduke wrote: Do they still run the purple slugs in York ?The fleet is only 20+ that I know of over both cities,given the reports of bunching some areas must be missing a lot of timetabled services.Have First abondoned the X64 Leeds-York service ?Have only observed Coastliner services on the A64 recently. It was recently reported that First was to stop its X64 service, so it must now have happened.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 02 Oct, 2010 9:01 am

Leodian wrote: dogduke wrote: Do they still run the purple slugs in York ?The fleet is only 20+ that I know of over both cities,given the reports of bunching some areas must be missing a lot of timetabled services.Have First abondoned the X64 Leeds-York service ?Have only observed Coastliner services on the A64 recently. It was recently reported that First was to stop its X64 service, so it must now have happened. It stopped at the last timetable change - not content with running trains betwixt Leeds and York, Worst obviously decided to try and snaffle Coastliners busy services. Shame it didn't work. The plus side is that Coastliner now run a more frequent service.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sat 02 Oct, 2010 9:13 am

I occasionally get the 508 toward Halifax. Used to be a quick, direct, realtively frequent service. Now it goes via Kirkstall and Bramleyrather than Armley and takes a detour round Farsely changing it from an 'intercity' bus to a local service in Leeds. Takes forever now.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 04 Oct, 2010 10:17 am

raveydavey wrote: Leodian wrote: dogduke wrote: Do they still run the purple slugs in York ?The fleet is only 20+ that I know of over both cities,given the reports of bunching some areas must be missing a lot of timetabled services.Have First abondoned the X64 Leeds-York service ?Have only observed Coastliner services on the A64 recently. It was recently reported that First was to stop its X64 service, so it must now have happened. It stopped at the last timetable change - not content with running trains betwixt Leeds and York, Worst obviously decided to try and snaffle Coastliners busy services. Shame it didn't work. The plus side is that Coastliner now run a more frequent service. The purple slugs in York were "confined to Barracks" every evening and all day Sundays some time ago - because First won't pay the "customer service hosts" (grrrrrr, conductors) at quiet times. service 4 is then operated by mormal "One Person" double deckers.Incredible though it may seem, perhaps not, the X64 was started simply to "utilise" the new saloons which had rapidly become redundant when the York to Leeds/Bradford Airport service failed to "jangle the till" sufficiently.

Riponian · Post by **Riponian** » Wed 06 Oct, 2010 5:13 pm

Yes, Worst have given up trying to compete with Coastliner between Leeds and York. I don't think their York-LBA service generated any passengers anyway, their patrons probably going via Leeds anyway.Some musing the the YEP (6/10) about the fare increases reducing passengers. Well you know my opinion, they're aiming towards passengerless buses! The push is for everyone to get their weekly or monthly tickets, but I do note there isn't a Green Zone Monthly option (grrrr!) unless you're a student.I do note in the comments, and have noticed that the patronage of the 36 has increased. They've not reduced the fares, just not put them up as fast as First have.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 14 Oct, 2010 8:57 pm

Oh dear!http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 81957.jpAN investigation has been launched after a bus crashed into a pedestrian barrier and a traffic light in Leeds city centre.The First bus, left, rolled backwards onto the central reservation outside the Three Legs pub on The Headrow just after 7pm on Wednesday.YEP reader Ian Sadler, who captured the damage on camera, said: "People were laughing and trying to work out how on earth the bus had ended up there."A spokesman for First UK Bus said: "An empty First bus in between journeys and parked up on the Headrow was involved in a minor road traffic collision."The bus rolled backwards a few yards resulting in a collision with a traffic light. No one was injured in the incident and we have now launched a full investigation into the matter."They were very, very lucky there - this could have been a lot more serious.Perchance the driver was on a 'comfort break' - I've been on buses where they park up at this location and the driver nips across the road and through a door with a keypad in the buildings on the old Odeon side of the road, returning several minutes later. BTW - this happened on Wednesday at 7pm and (as far as I can tell) hasn't made it into Thursdays paper....