Heating on buses

[Mayneway]

RE: Heating on buses

(13/12/2015 18:59)RedPanda Wrote:  Then shouldn't the engineers set the valves to on in the winter, and when it starts getting warmer in the day to turn them off and turn them on again if they're operating when its getting colder. When its summer, have fewer buses set to on or all off for the night. Then slowly turn them back on. All it probably needs is an engineer/fitter to be at the main bus station. £2 odd is a lot of money for a cold bus journey but made less money by having a man and his spanner.

There are two problems with your comments.
Firstly when do engineeres turn it on? If you have a cold frosty night in October then a 3/4 week mild spell one thing engineering staff won't want to do is be constantly be turning heating on and off lol.

The other issue is from what I've been told that where stagecoach are concerned anyway, the engineeres only normally turn heating on/off while the bus is off the road for it's 3/4 week inspection so like this weekend, we've hit a very cold spell, they won't run round turning every buses heating on - its a gradule thing.

I think it was Brighton and hove who had some new buses delivered with automatic saloon heating/cooling that was constantly blowing warm air out during summer. Engineers claimed it was because passengers unsisted on having the windows open which confused the thermostats so they locked the windows closed - in the middle of summer lol