The Evil Old Man
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:23:28 +0100
I was just looking back through a few of the Evil Old Man's posts and was
amused by the contradictions.
For starters, calling Stagecoach and the other big operators, not
recognising that the majority of the drivers once worked for (and were
originally trained by) the small operators from the past that he wors ...
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Nottingham pensioner refused travel because bus pass would not work with bus machine.
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:09:52 +0100
A Nottingham pensioner boarded a local bus and placed his free travel
card up against the reader but a red light came up. The driver
politely told him to get off because if there were an accident both he
(the driver) and the bus company (NCT) would be liable.
The pensioner backed down to save delaying all the o ...
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Buses in adverts
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:08:34 -0700 (PDT)
There's an amusing margarine advert in this week's Radio Times. It's
trying to show the long term health benefits, and consists of three
pictures:-
A young girl running to an old fashioned bus stop, with the back end
of an RF just pulling away
A teenager running to an old LT concrete bus stop, with the back ...
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Tramwaytag in Venna
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:19:12 +0200
can be found here:
http://public-transport.net/bim/TT09.htm
Tramwaytag is the yearly exhibition of Viennas largest local
public-transport provider Wiener Linien, and took place this year in the
maintenance centre in Simmering. So there was everything from the
Oldtimer shuttle service, historic trams up to th ...
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Domestic Rules are the pits!
Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:00:08 +0100
I finished work at 19.53 tonight. I looked the other day and discovered that
I was on in the morning at 5am. Then, during my shift, I was asked to come
in at 4.30am instead. With a staff bus to pick me up at 4am (Way before it
actually needs to be here, but I realise we are lucky to have them) I will
have to s ...
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Blackburn bus cuts
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:02:45 GMT
>A COUNCILLOR has vowed to knock on the doors of more than 800 people who have protested against cuts to bus services.
>Last night the row over Blackburn with Darwen's bus network was top of the agenda at a meeting of the council's executive board.
>It came the day after town hall bosses launched a furious att ...
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new bus pics Vienna and Graz
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:15:06 +0200
Vienna bus - renewed with 80 new pics:
http://public-transport.net/bus/Wien.htm
new bus pics from Graz:
http://public-transport.net/bus/Graz.htm
Regards
Franz
for new tram and metro pics: see http://public-transport.net ...
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What are the odds on this happening again?
Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:51:00 +0100
A customer in a betting shop was killed when a bus ploughed into the
building.
Police said the single-decker Stagecoach bus mounted the pavement and
smashed through the window of a William Hill bookmakers in Dukinfield,
Greater Manchester.
The freak incident happened at 15:10 on 07/09/09.
Photos at:
http: ...
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Anyone successfully sued a bus company under Trades Descriptions/Sale
of Goods/Advertising Standards via small claims, or other, courts?
Tue, 8 Sep 2009 00:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
I'm going to start off this post with a little periscope
into what kind of a mood I was on leaving work just
a little after 6 this morning. Obviously, I'm starting
to write this at half past eight, it's a 15 minute drive
and I haven't yet made a cuppa.
But I digress!
When I first asked at a local shop for a ...
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Stolen bus chased by police car
Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:31:53 +0100
From
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8242904.stm
"Stolen bus chased by police car
A teenager has been arrested following a police pursuit in Cumbria
involving a stolen bus.
The single-decker Stagecoach vehicle was taken from the depot in
Lancaster on Sunday evening, and was later seen being ...
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