Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[MX05 CKN]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(11/09/2013 23:34)GmBusesNorth Wrote:  

(11/09/2013 23:09)MX05 CKN Wrote:  

(11/09/2013 22:58)GmBusesNorth Wrote:  When first had wigan depot b9s where used regular on skools services!

No they weren't. A family friend drove for First's Wigan operations and told me that they had to keep them off school services as much as possible due to vandalism.

I still drive for the skools unit and can assure you they where used regular has where the b7s and your referral that eddies/brychall is rough is so untrue! These routes suffer no vandalism at all! And i talk to the drivers everyday and they never have any problems and im sure that all routes from these skools operated by stagecoach wigan are now ysb services!

When i get to work tomorrow ill ask the drivers do they get any problems etc from two of wigans better schools!

I left Eddies a year ago, shortly after the 659(vandalism all the time) was changed to. A YSB service. For a year I got the 651(surprise surprise , vandalism. But Al was a lovely driver), I got the Y67 for 3 years(Jamie Sinclair and Dennis were great guys too) and I got the 657 for a year.

My point is that a lot of the vandalism goes unnoticed and unreported by the drivers because IF the prefects said something about what they saw(they never did because it made them looked bad at their job) then they reported it to St Edmund Arrowsmith school where they study, Mr Eyes then would sort the situation without First ever being involved. I've seen seat bottoms taken off and thrown down stairs,countless numbers of "X loves Y" signs and penises carved into things, rubber strips torn from the ceiling and cigarette burns on the seats. When First did catch something happening then everyone on that bus was called into an assembly and shouted at.

Stuff happens on School buses that drivers know nothing about and YSBs are the only routes were vandalism didn't occur because we had a great relationship with the drivers.