Since returning from this summer’s second vacation, I’ve rarely had an opportunity to catch up on comments left on this site. I am grateful to all those who leave remarks.
Header
I do remain grateful for the comments about the header situation. Time has been against me but I *will* attend to this as soon as…
7+1 Commercial Sites
Now then. This caused a degree of controversy. Probably best to read the comments as they appear. The idea behind the inventory was to include a range of possibilities, rather than simply list "me too" sites. I withdrew the "plus one" as being out-of-date but as of 4 September, replaced it. One question though. Should professional websites include fleet lists??
Survivor?
A commenter didn't share my liking for the East Lancs Olympus body. I rather fancy it, but perhaps a term upon which all would agree is "striking". Cogidubnus refers to an article on East Lancs in routeONE. Wish I'd seen that before I posted.
Northern Soul - The Angel
Cogidubnus clearly summed the post on Go North East route branding well: "Network branding... clearly works best where you've an integrated network and corridor/town branding where there's a more piecemeal situation; horses for courses clearly and sensibly so in these cases..."
7+1 Top UK Websites
Grateful thanks to the four commenters who suggested other top UK unofficial sites. One suggestion, londonbusroutes.net, now features in the 7+1 Commercial sites. The commenter adds, "The latest full timetables for all bus routes in the London area. TfL should provide this info but they don't." No, I didn't include the busstation.net on purpose, useful resource that it may be.
Barbie 4
The post on 'Barbie Four' as I am calling it drew the comment that First's interiors, though mellow, were difficult to clean. Witness ftr vehicles' interiors. Very true? And there was the issue of confusion over exactly which buggies and pushchairs Blazefield subsidiaries now accept on its buses. Could this evolve into as contentious an issue as to which dogs a driver has discretion to accept, or not?
1:5
An anonymous commenter from Harrogate correctly guessed that it was Transdev Harrogate & District that is instigating a campaign to encourage the more environmentally conscious to leave their cars once a week to catch a bus. The resultant Leave the Car website featured on Omnibus2.0's Top 7+1 commercial websites, itself quite a controversial post, for its innovative thinking.
50km Rule
Dennis Dash said that Stagecoach South was less concerned about the 50km driving regulations than the fitment of tachographs in associated vehicles. More on this, here. Meanwhile, an anonymous commenter suggested that VOSA is content with domestic service routes being linked so that passengers do not need to change. I guess this presupposes a point mid-route where drivers can change, something not always possible.
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Playing Catch-up
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we in the operatimg industry should not forget that domestic hours is a derogation from the 50KM rule. without that derogation we could all be subject to EU rules
and that Member States may establish rules that are more strict than those imposed by the EC, when applied to Domestic Driving Hours. Ironically, reducing driving hours to, say 4 hours maximum for Domestic Driving, would see an increase in longer routes to conform to the then more lenient EC Driving Hours - something that would satisfy many of the comment leavers to this site.
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