Brighton Bus Strike Within 2 Weeks

[Mendoza]

The shoddy and expensive service that is Brighton & Hove buses will be disrupted one day within the next 2 weeks as the drivers dont agree with their 4-8% pay rise and will go on strike.


Maybe if they could run their services on time, they would have a leg to stand on - SAKE!!

 

[Easy 10]

4% - 8% ?
Oh the poor BASTARDS

 

[Jake Manthorpe]

As for the people who get the bus to work? buggered!

 

[mattb]

You can't have used bus services in many other cities, surely. Brighton and Hove Buses is pretty good, in my opinion.

 

[RM-Taylor]

You can't have used bus services in many other cities, surely. Brighton and Hove Buses is pretty good, in my opinion.

Indedpendant and do a good job.

Alot better than Stagecocach

 

[bright1064]

Some of the drivers are arseholes! Other than that I have no complaints. Will be funny to see Brighton "Bus Free" for a day though. North Street and Churchill Square will look completely different, and a lot less polluted.

 

[Mendoza]

Some of the drivers are arseholes! Other than that I have no complaints. Will be funny to see Brighton "Bus Free" for a day though. North Street and Churchill Square will look completely different, and a lot less polluted.

but it will be chocca with cars as all the people that are looking after their carbon footprint and trying to save the environment will be driving instead of taking the bus - WICKERD!!

 

[bright1064]

but it will be chocca with cars as all the people that are looking after their carbon footprint and trying to save the environment will be driving instead of taking the bus - WICKERD!!

I would like to think there will be a LARGE amount of people who are completely unaware of this strike, and therefore still turn up for their bus as usual. The image of HUNDREDS of Brightonians standing around checking their watch every few seconds at a bus stop near you, makes me laugh.

 

[Mendoza]

I would like to think there will be a LARGE amount of people who are completely unaware of this strike, and there fore still turn up for their bus as usual. The image of HUNDREDS of Brightonians standing around checking their watch every few seconds at a bus stop near you, makes me laugh.

thats a normal days service for the bus company

 

[Elder for England]

Brighton and Hove buses are very good.....expect for the miserable bus drivers, I have no idea why they go for the job working with members of the public. Also, I don't know if anyone else does, but I get the '2' regularly - most awful bus. Other than that, great

 

[Mendoza]

Brighton and Hove buses are very good.....expect for the miserable bus drivers, I have no idea why they go for the job working with members of the public. Also, I don't know if anyone else does, but I get the '2' regularly - most awful bus. Other than that, great

My favourite is the 28/29 coming back into Brighton, never turns up within 10minutes of being on time

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Be glad you have a bus option.
One per hour to either Horsham or Guildford from here; return fare to Guildford (11miles) is about £6. Last buses also conveniently timed so you can't get home if you're commuting on from either town. If I used public transport to go the Withdean even on a Saturday afternoon then I'd be stranded in Horsham or face an 8 mile walk along the A281 deathtrap. Falmer will take an even longer.
Am still waiting for the free market to deliver.

 

[Elder for England]

My favourite is the 28/29 coming back into Brighton, never turns up within 10minutes of being on time

I didn't understand this

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My favourite is the 28/29 coming back into Brighton, never turns up within 10 minutes of being on time

Until someone gets SERIOUS about providing bus priority measures that will improve the reliability of buses running through Ringmer and Uckfield and onwards into and through Lewes, the 28/29 will always run late. Don't blame the bus company.

And your earlier complaint abot B&H buses being expensive ... how do you work that out, with the fares between Lewes and wherever you want to go in Brighton now being less than half what they were ten or fifteen years ago?

 

[Elder for England]

It is expensive!

£1.70 to get one bus!

 

[Easy 10]

How many buses do you want to get ?

 

[Mendoza]

Until someone gets SERIOUS about providing bus priority measures that will improve the reliability of buses running through Ringmer and Uckfield and onwards into and through Lewes, the 28/29 will always run late. Don't blame the bus company.

And your earlier complaint abot B&H buses being expensive ... how do you work that out, with the fares between Lewes and wherever you want to go in Brighton now being less than half what they were ten or fifteen years ago?

I know that getting to Lewes from the east is bad, but all the bus company need to do is change the regularity of the buses. They know they cannot deliver 4 buses an hourm, so why not only schedule 3, 1 every 20 mins, and they can run on time and not muck the public about.


It is £2 to get a single from Lewes to Brighton? I dont know? A single is £1.70, which I think it is expensive. They want people to stop using cars, so why make it expensive to use public transport. Like they dont want obesity running through the land, but its more expensive to buy a salad than a big mac and fries

 

[Wilko]

As Brett will know the 5 and 5A from Patcham to Brighton on Sat night is a JOKE. For the last 3 weeks the 7.30 bus has just never turned up so many people waited almost an hour for the bus.

Even the display says Bus due in 5,4,3,2 1 min and then vanishes with no bus. Try speaking to the driver and they give you lots of grief.

This sat I will be walking the 45 mins into town

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It is £2 to get a single from Lewes to Brighton? I dont know? A single is £1.70, which I think it is expensive. They want people to stop using cars, so why make it expensive to use public transport. Like they dont want obesity running through the land, but its more expensive to buy a salad than a big mac and fries

I guess you're mainly a foul-weather bus user, what with all that BIKING you do. But if I lived in Brighton and travelled daily to and from Lewes, I would get a weekly SuperSAVER at £12 and have the complete freedom of the B&H network.

Or even a 3 month SuperSAVER at £10 a week.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I know that getting to Lewes from the east is bad, but all the bus company need to do is change the regularity of the buses. They know they cannot deliver 4 buses an hourm, so why not only schedule 3, 1 every 20 mins, and they can run on time and not muck the public about.

Which section of the public would you choose to muck about by doing that?

The people who want two buses an hour at Ringmer? Or the folk who want two buses an hour at Uckfield, Crowborough and Tunbridge Wells?

And how would your solution deal with the delays to buses caused by traffic in Uckfield or running into Lewes?