(14 Apr 2026, 5:44 pm)220631612 wrote You’re not looking at the full picture just a small part of it. The St Peter’s Basin lights don’t help (especially with the build up of traffic on Bolam Way/Raby Street which the Q3 doesn’t serve). The timetable of the 18 has been unachievable for years now but Stagecoach never raised the issue with Nexus which has led to this debacle.
Well, this statement is just completely incorrect because last year the timetable was changed twice in the same year because of timing issues.
(20 Apr 2026, 6:09 am)PH - BQA wrote Did you ever try and use the Stagecoach 18? I did, on a number of occasions. Emphasis on the word try.The 18 is my local, I use it daily and it was rarely late with Stagecoach. I'm seeing a lot of false narratives regarding the 18 under Stagecoach.
Never rocked up when it was meant to, to the point that on the three or four times I attempted to use it I was always on a different service or found myself walking.
Buses either sped to try and keep time, or were unable to speed because Stagecoach allocated the worst things they had to it. They always allocated scruffy, soiled, old E400s.
I’m struggling to see why people saw the Stagecoach 18 as some sort of utopia where it, like most of their services, was borderline unusable.