Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[Wright Eclipse]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Maybe preparing the Enviro 400s for transfers?

[MX12EOC]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(12/03/2013 09:01)Wright Eclipse Wrote:  Maybe preparing the Enviro 400s for transfers?

What do you mean, as in we are getting more enviros or we are losing some?

[Wright Eclipse]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(12/03/2013 12:44)MX12EOC Wrote:  

(12/03/2013 09:01)Wright Eclipse Wrote:  Maybe preparing the Enviro 400s for transfers?

What do you mean, as in we are getting more enviros or we are losing some?

i mean Older buses covering while some Enviro 400s are getting prepared for transfer (to hull is it?) because not all Hybrids are yet in service yet

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(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.

[MX12EOC]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(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!

[MX12EOC]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
The moral of the stories above is, depends on the depot. :| Or even more the staff.

[jimbo]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
drivers like myself got out for cigs tonwaste time because we were running early... and yespassengers get on ya tits when they complain... as drivers will get it many timea a day

[MX12EOC]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(12/03/2013 18:06)jimbo Wrote:  drivers like myself got out for cigs tonwaste time because we were running early... and yespassengers get on ya tits when they complain... as drivers will get it many timea a day

I think it's fair enough if you're running early tbh, because nobody will be late so what's the problem? Besides not all drivers are mean people there are the odd one or to but doesn't make them all bad, I have a metaphor for that but I would rather not put it on here.

[MX12EOC]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Some crazy rumours out and about, one being plausible and one sounding like its from a bulls rear end, one being a lot of 2013's orders are for Manchester including an elite i, the other being that the older tridents, and ALX's are being moved out of Manchester

[ace]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(12/03/2013 18:35)MX12EOC Wrote:  Some crazy rumours out and about, one being plausible and one sounding like its from a bulls rear end, one being a lot of 2013's orders are for Manchester including an elite i, the other being that the older tridents, and ALX's are being moved out of Manchester

Well the older tridents from Stockport were supposed to be going to Wigan, unless that has now changed. I doubt if any others will leave just yet. The oldest on Magic is T reg, so only 14 years old. At least another year before they start to disappear.
As for new orders, I honestly don't know. Stockport has just had 40 new hybrids, to add to an already modern fleet, where not a single Enviro is older than 08 reg. If any new ones do come they'll either go to Ashton, or possibly on the 50 route. I can't see large numbers coming but there may be a few. I'm thinking maybe 12 for the 50, with the existing 09's going to Ashton to replace the East Midlands bound 06/56 reg's.