Buses for Burnley tonight

Forbury Lion · by **Forbury Lion** » 09 Jan 2007 09:00

I was chatting to a friend of mine who called Reading Buses yesterday, He said they told him buses would be leaving 30 minutes earlier than normal (due to rush hour traffic) to start the pickups.

Personally, I'm assuming the 8pm evening kickoff timetable will be followed.... Has anyone heard differently?

MadMac · by **MadMac** » 09 Jan 2007 12:08

Anyone coming from Newbury, just called up Newbury Buses and the 78 Bus is leaving newbury at 6:08 and will get to Thatcham Broadway at about 6:26.

Note Bust tickets brought on Saturday are not vaild and new ones will need to be brought (money grabbing....)

Jerry St Clair · by **Jerry St Clair** » 09 Jan 2007 12:20

How much are tickets from Thatchers Broadway?

MadMac · by **MadMac** » 09 Jan 2007 12:59

Â£5.50 from pick up at Henwick Lane / Northfield Road might be the same from the Broadway (or a couple of pence cheaper)..

Stranded · by **Stranded** » 09 Jan 2007 13:07

MadMac wrote:Anyone coming from Newbury, just called up Newbury Buses and the 78 Bus is leaving newbury at 6:08 and will get to Thatcham Broadway at about 6:26.

Note Bust tickets brought on Saturday are not vaild and new ones will need to be brought (money grabbing....)

Well obviously. You still used the service on Saturday so got what you paid for.

Forbury Lion · by **Forbury Lion** » 09 Jan 2007 13:11

The bus company still have to pay drivers and pay for fuel so I guess it's not unreasonable for them to charge, Afterall they did provide us with a journey there and a journey on the correct date as stated on our tickets.

MadMac · by **MadMac** » 09 Jan 2007 13:29

Yes I know and I was expecting it, buit no harm in asking as there was talk on the bus that it might be vaild (from the bus driver)....

PlasticRoyale · by **PlasticRoyale** » 09 Jan 2007 13:46

Forbury Lion wrote:I was chatting to a friend of mine who called Reading Buses yesterday, He said they told him buses would be leaving 30 minutes earlier than normal (due to rush hour traffic) to start the pickups.

Personally, I'm assuming the 8pm evening kickoff timetable will be followed.... Has anyone heard differently?

Could you ask your friend why they load up so slowly? I'm sick of listening to the whiners in the queue (especially northern Know-it-alls) and would like to be able to respond.

"Reading Bus no79 doesn't load more than one bus at a time or take any other form of action to speed things up because of x,y z"

I don't mind the waiting but may be forced to knock the next Northern moaner out (which could be tonight - if he's small and on his own)

Joe · by **Joe** » 09 Jan 2007 13:58

When you have a queue with three buses' doors open people get on the one with most space,
as this fills up people start getting on the next one which is fine until bus 4 opens it's doors and everyone gets on this leaving bus 1,2,3 left three quarters full

.with none of the buses full more people would end up waiting for the second "round" of buses,

This used to occur before they changed it to the one bus at a time system they have now,

p.s no i don't work for reading buses

Forbury Lion · by **Forbury Lion** » 09 Jan 2007 15:06

If there are twelve bus loads of people waiting and only six buses, why not open the doors to all six?

Nezhen · by **Nezhen** » 09 Jan 2007 15:50

Anyone know why people are soooo reluctant to go and sit down upstairs on the buses from Caversham?.

This has led to situations in the past, where because people will not move down or go upstairs, and the bus actually leaves for the stadium with empty seats still available upstairs.

I just cannot understand the mentatility of these w*nkers?. I also thought that the driver has a sort of periscope mirror to check if seats are available upstairs?. Have these all been removed from the modern buses ?

weybridgewanderer · by **weybridgewanderer** » 09 Jan 2007 15:56

not just the caversham bus!

station buses and shire hall buses suffer the same problem. seems people thnk that if the fill the downstairs to stand only the driver will think the bus is full and leave a bit quicker

in the end it just slows everything down

I guess some people just want to get off the bus quickly coz the want to run for a train or feel they'll get oiut of shire hall one cycle of lights quicker

addsrfc · by **addsrfc** » 09 Jan 2007 16:10

Anyone know how much the buss is from the station .... adult and child prices

thanks

Toon Toon Blue army · by **Toon Toon Blue army** » 09 Jan 2007 16:30

addsrfc wrote:Anyone know how much the buss is from the station .... adult and child prices

thanks

Â£3 return adult

Â£1.50 return child (not 100% sure on child though)

addsrfc · by **addsrfc** » 09 Jan 2007 16:32

cheers