12/03/2013, 21:34
(12/03/2013 17:44)MX12EOC Wrote: [ -> ](12/03/2013 13:10)Mayneway Wrote: [ -> ](11/03/2013 23:01)SLTRegular Wrote: [ -> ]Is there anything that can be Done about Stagecoach Manchester running off route on Football Extras and also refusing to stop on deansgate? on Sunday i was aboard a 191** Enviro400 (i wont name incase they would lose there job) and it took a right turn through Hulme to the crys of several idiots we dont want to go through Monkeyville. now i cant see how going through Hulme over Chester road is quicker but i missed my train home by 2 mins because of it i was in the station and everything so this slight detour cost me an hour of my time not best pleased with the Stagecoach driver for this stunt or the racists aboard said bus the first and only time ive not thanked a bus driver in my life.Also said driver wouldnt stop at Deansgate is there a reason for this as Extras have always stopped at Deansgate Corner of Oxford road and Picc Gardens from memory.
Also the Driver of 19480 on Sunday was a excellent driver certainly knew how to drive a bus to a very high standard especially considering the child running around the lower deck i assume he was an ex coach driver or something.
A similar thing has happened to me about 12 months ago. I have to catch two buses to get home from work. I got on the 236 in glossop, we got to Stalybridge late, yet the driver decided to leave his cab and smoke a fag, after a couple of minutes a passenger asked why we had stopped as he had another bus to catch, the driver just gave him a dirty look, got back in his cab, turned OFF the engine and decided to roll a second cigarette. Eventually he started the engine and confined the journey. Only he decided as a protest he would drive all the way to Ashton at 5mph. As we got to the lights outside Ashton bus station the same passenger got up and asked if he could get off as his 219 was there and about to leave. The driver said no and then decided to drive into the bus station and do a full loop at of it at 5mph. When he eventually let us off he just sat there laughing to himself. Never the less the chap missed his 219 and I had a 30 min walk!
I complained to Stagecoach and got a scathing email back saying the driver had 'light headed' so decided to take a short break at Stalybridge, and that they checked the GPS for the bus and they thought he was driving at a 'sendible' speed.
If I was you I would complain, I very much doubt the driver would get sacked, at the very least a stern taking too.
Back in the day when Louise Simpson was AOM of Stockport (Now OM at Torbay) she sorted stuff out, one time I was getting on the bus with food, but the driver said not to take it onboard, I was like "fair enough" but then a person behind me was also eating and got on the bus with food, I emailed her and because I 'wasted' my money she was going to send me a voucher or a free dayrider but she found it more useful to send me a voucher for a megarider! The OM at Ashton is a tool, scuse' the language, the driver on the 330 was driving forwards as I crossed the road, he didn't stop and I ran back on the pavement whilst him giving me evils :\ All he got was a bloody FFI!
If it's the current OM at AZ your talking about I couldn't agree more, yet I'm told from a friend who works for Stagecoach that he's quite strict with the drivers and often goes out in his car making sure drivers have the correct destinations showing and arn't wearing their hi viz's in the cab etc yet dosent take a partically good view when responding to complaints - almost like we are Waisting his time.
Another issue is the way drivers drive at pedestrians. I've lost count at the number of times I've been crossing the pedestrian crossing in the bus station and the drivers just drive at me with out slowing down, yet it's funny how they stop when it's the TFGM supervisor crossing or watching.
