[Travel] Boring bus question

[Gwylan]

However yes you’re right they are longer and it can make a difference (I.e turning left into Oxford St at The Bat And Ball)

Is there a chance that they could crash into the Bat & Ball and cause thousands of pounds worth of improvements?

 

[BrightonCottager]

However yes you’re right they are longer and it can make a difference (I.e turning left into Oxford St at The Bat And Ball)

Turning right, Shirley?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

it's to cut the emissions. doesn't take any more fuel to start regularly, though it'll be caning the battery. chunky things in buses, i'm wondering how car ones hold up where this is done.

I have a Volvo XC60 and this has an option to auto-stop the engine. This only happens if all of the following is true.
The clutch is not depressed, and the vehicle is stationary (hand-brake doesn't have to be on) and the battery has at least 70% charge
If all of these are not the case, the engine auto-stop does not activate.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Turning right, Shirley?

Left?… right? …. I try not to worry about tiny details

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Is there a chance that they could crash into the Bat & Ball and cause thousands of pounds worth of improvements?

Ask @BrightonCottager he’ll tell you why I keep hitting the traffic island

 

[Skuller]

I'm sure these new Coasters are not as powerful as the original ones, seem very slow on the big hills between Eastbourne and Cuckmere valley area

Will be interesting to see how the 701 Stagecoach bangers get on.....

The 701 has just started service. I just love the idea of new services, but I just don’t get it. It goes hourly from Brighton to Eastbourne (shame we’ve not got a service that already does that) but decides to go via Falmer, Lewes (bypass), Beddingham (but doesn’t stop there), Newhaven, and then on the route of the 12 to Eastbourne. I just don’t get the point. Where it’s not duplicating the 12, which is the bit up the A27 and down the A26 it stops at about three stops between Falmer and Newhaven, avoids population centres like Lewes, and doesn’t even help hikers who want stops in the countryside. I’ll give it a year.

 

[Hovegull]

Excellent
My question: how on earth does a double decker successfully get up Furze Hill and along Temple Gardens?
Is that one of the trickiest routes to get the double decker up?
Interested to know any that are worse…

 

[Eeyore]

Keep the boring bus questions coming. I love a good bus me.

What do folk think of the new B & H colours ?

I know I shouldn't post porn but... pwoaahhh...

Sadly this beauty has long gone

I even wrote an ode to it

Dear 81…

81- possibly the most comforting number I will ever know on a sodden Saturday afternoon in St James’s Street. They said that 42 was the answer to the universe, and for a while it was, until about 1…

queensparkchronicles.uk

 

[Withdean South Stand]

Excellent
My question: how on earth does a double decker successfully get up Furze Hill and along Temple Gardens?
Is that one of the trickiest routes to get the double decker up?
Interested to know any that are worse…

This is an excellent question - especially considering the 21 route is in both directions on Furze Hill and Temple Gardens. The 21 route seems a challenging drive in generally, it's not a picnic getting up around Goldstone Valley and then Manor Hill is a challenge too, plus the Furze Hill section.

 

[Withdean South Stand]

Keep the boring bus questions coming. I love a good bus me.

What do folk think of the new B & H colours ?

I know I shouldn't post porn but... pwoaahhh...

Sadly this beauty has long gone

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I even wrote an ode to it

Dear 81…

81- possibly the most comforting number I will ever know on a sodden Saturday afternoon in St James’s Street. They said that 42 was the answer to the universe, and for a while it was, until about 1…

queensparkchronicles.uk

Well, if you're posting that then I'm posting this. Feast your eyes.

 

[Bry Nylon]

This only happens if all of the following is true. The clutch is not depressed, and the vehicle is stationary (hand-brake doesn't have to be on) and the battery has at least 70% charge

What if the clutch isn't depressed but is just a bit fed up?

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

What do folk think of the new B & H colours ?

I think it's nicer. The more HYPER TURQ we have in the city, the better.

 

[Eeyore]

Well, if you're posting that then I'm posting this. Feast your eyes.

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Glad I work alone. I'd be in trouble for that one. Private moment needed.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Well, if you're posting that then I'm posting this. Feast your eyes.

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Always plenty of those in attendance at the Worthing Bus Rally at the end of July.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

What if the clutch isn't depressed but is just a bit fed up?

I treat my clutch with the utmost kindness and respect but it does get a bit fed up on those long motorway trips back to Sussex from here.
220+ miles and SEVEN different motorways would make anything a bit fed up, no?

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Excellent
My question: how on earth does a double decker successfully get up Furze Hill and along Temple Gardens?
Is that one of the trickiest routes to get the double decker up?
Interested to know any that are worse…

On the 21s the worst is Vine Cross Rd/Swanborough Drive Junction. The double yellows are needed to position the bus to allow oncoming traffic to pass from the other end as you can’t see it around the corner. However someone now parks there with a disabled badge as they are legally entitled to do, so reversing or driving on the verge is common.