(29 Nov 2019, 6:30 pm)streetdeckfan That's the reason I could never be a bus driver. I have no patience. I guarantee I would get sacked in the first week for shouting at passengers.Despite the apparent low skill, it does take some good people skills for drivers to deal with some extremely difficult passengers. Just look at the shit that arriva drivers in Darlo have had to deal with, recently. I've witnessed a driver deal quite expertly with some foul mouthed guys bragging about their jail time in very colourful terms on an arriva 56 but had to talk down a young man who took umbrage at a driver's rather aggressive demand for ID (with rapid escalation while the young guy was clearly a bit confuddled by all the aggro) when the confrontation was clearly stressing out big'un and leaving a guy in front of me, reliant on 2 sticks, standing for far longer than necessary. No amount of training can give someone the people skills of the first driver but I do appreciate that the driver who mucked it up had had to deal with several dozen genuine chancers over the preceding week and was probably at the end of his rope.
I had to get off the X21 early because of a bunch of youths shouting and being generally disruptive
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(30 Nov 2019, 5:06 pm)cbma06 WTX citarios need repainting into corporate liveryI'm surprised they've taken so long, tbh.
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(29 Nov 2019, 6:30 pm)streetdeckfan That's the reason I could never be a bus driver. I have no patience. I guarantee I would get sacked in the first week for shouting at passengers.Despite the apparent low skill, it does take some good people skills for drivers to deal with some extremely difficult passengers. Just look at the shit that arriva drivers in Darlo have had to deal with, recently. I've witnessed a driver deal quite expertly with some foul mouthed guys bragging about their jail time in very colourful terms on an arriva 56 but had to talk down a young man who took umbrage at a driver's rather aggressive demand for ID (with rapid escalation while the young guy was clearly a bit confuddled by all the aggro) when the confrontation was clearly stressing out big'un and leaving a guy in front of me, reliant on 2 sticks, standing for far longer than necessary. No amount of training can give someone the people skills of the first driver but I do appreciate that the driver who mucked it up had had to deal with several dozen genuine chancers over the preceding week and was probably at the end of his rope.
I had to get off the X21 early because of a bunch of youths shouting and being generally disruptive
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(30 Nov 2019, 5:06 pm)cbma06 WTX citarios need repainting into corporate liveryI'm surprised they've taken so long, tbh.
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(30 Nov 2019, 10:56 pm)BusLoverMum I have a PGCE. A year of university an classroom work on top of the degree I already had.And I’m sure you’d be equally peeved if I said you were no better trained than a HLTA, as I was that streetdeckfan said bus drivers are as unskilled as a checkout operator.
(30 Nov 2019, 10:56 pm)BusLoverMum I have a PGCE. A year of university an classroom work on top of the degree I already had.And I’m sure you’d be equally peeved if I said you were no better trained than a HLTA, as I was that streetdeckfan said bus drivers are as unskilled as a checkout operator.
I much prefer the placement of the GNE logo (with slogan underneath) as applied to the newly painted corporate examples: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27974644@N...ateposted/
..compared to the placement of it on the Cobalt & Coasts: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...CM-2hgp8EE
I think with the Cobalt & Coasts having the slogan on the same line it just looks like a really long logo with too much text. And I find it weird that the route name is then displaced up to alongside the advert frames.
I believe it was explained the Cobalt & Coasts had their GNE logos placed on the lower body panels to match the placement of company logos in the Brighton & Hove & Go North West divisions - I could be wrong? However as this theory then didn't follow through to the new Green Arrows livery, (or 2019 corporate liveried deckers), do this mean the decision was reversed? I just wondered and couldn't remember seeing anything on here about it.
(01 Dec 2019, 6:31 pm)ne14ne1 I much prefer the placement of the GNE logo (with slogan underneath) as applied to the newly painted corporate examples: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27974644@N...ateposted/
..compared to the placement of it on the Cobalt & Coasts: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...CM-2hgp8EE
I think with the Cobalt & Coasts having the slogan on the same line it just looks like a really long logo with too much text. And I find it weird that the route name is then displaced up to alongside the advert frames.
I believe it was explained the Cobalt & Coasts had their GNE logos placed on the lower body panels to match the placement of company logos in the Brighton & Hove & Go North West divisions - I could be wrong? However as this theory then didn't follow through to the new Green Arrows livery, (or 2019 corporate liveried deckers), do this mean the decision was reversed? I just wondered and couldn't remember seeing anything on here about it.
(01 Dec 2019, 6:31 pm)ne14ne1 I much prefer the placement of the GNE logo (with slogan underneath) as applied to the newly painted corporate examples: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27974644@N...ateposted/
..compared to the placement of it on the Cobalt & Coasts: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...CM-2hgp8EE
I think with the Cobalt & Coasts having the slogan on the same line it just looks like a really long logo with too much text. And I find it weird that the route name is then displaced up to alongside the advert frames.
I believe it was explained the Cobalt & Coasts had their GNE logos placed on the lower body panels to match the placement of company logos in the Brighton & Hove & Go North West divisions - I could be wrong? However as this theory then didn't follow through to the new Green Arrows livery, (or 2019 corporate liveried deckers), do this mean the decision was reversed? I just wondered and couldn't remember seeing anything on here about it.
(01 Dec 2019, 4:02 pm)Michael 6937 has been withdrawn.6914 heading up to Consett earlier today.
(01 Dec 2019, 4:02 pm)Michael 6937 has been withdrawn.6914 heading up to Consett earlier today.
Has the Panther been unleashed or am I wasting my time hanging around at Gateshead in the freezing cold waiting
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(02 Dec 2019, 1:04 pm)TEN 6083 Has the Panther been unleashed or am I wasting my time hanging around at Gateshead in the freezing cold waiting
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(02 Dec 2019, 1:58 pm)Dan Wasting your time - it's VOR awaiting Plaxtons to come out to it.
(02 Dec 2019, 1:58 pm)Dan Wasting your time - it's VOR awaiting Plaxtons to come out to it.
Just noticed that the X21 is no longer referred to as X-Lines on Google Maps, and the colour has now changed to red from blue and gold.
At least it now says that it terminates at Eldon Square rather than Haymarket!
Also, has anyone else having trouble getting on here today?
I keep getting
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Just seen 6322 at Blaydon NIS
Never mind it’s on a scholars service
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Is anyone else getting a "Resource Limit Reached, please try later" message when trying to access forum site ?
(02 Dec 2019, 6:01 pm)Coppercap40 Is anyone else getting a "Resource Limit Reached, please try later" message when trying to access forum site ?
(02 Dec 2019, 6:01 pm)Coppercap40 Is anyone else getting a "Resource Limit Reached, please try later" message when trying to access forum site ?
(02 Dec 2019, 6:01 pm)Coppercap40 Is anyone else getting a "Resource Limit Reached, please try later" message when trying to access forum site ?
(02 Dec 2019, 6:01 pm)Coppercap40 Is anyone else getting a "Resource Limit Reached, please try later" message when trying to access forum site ?
It seems this Xlines X30 repeats it's route & destination at each stop too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5GtS79MK-s
(02 Dec 2019, 8:22 pm)ne14ne1 It seems this Xlines X30 repeats it's route & destination at each stop too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5GtS79MK-s
(02 Dec 2019, 8:22 pm)ne14ne1 It seems this Xlines X30 repeats it's route & destination at each stop too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5GtS79MK-s
(02 Dec 2019, 8:22 pm)ne14ne1 It seems this Xlines X30 repeats it's route & destination at each stop too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5GtS79MK-s
(02 Dec 2019, 8:22 pm)ne14ne1 It seems this Xlines X30 repeats it's route & destination at each stop too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5GtS79MK-s
(02 Dec 2019, 8:29 pm)Michael Most, if not all of the GNE stop announcements do that.. it is annoying but, it does help the blind or someone who has no idea where they're going.
(02 Dec 2019, 8:29 pm)Michael Most, if not all of the GNE stop announcements do that.. it is annoying but, it does help the blind or someone who has no idea where they're going.
