Brighton bus drivers ballot to strike

[Gary Leeds]

Many many years more than that. Can you really see an automated bus negotiating North Street?

Currently all you need to do is stick a 3 ft bar between buses in North Street and have the front one pull the rest up the hill at about 4mph. Would almost be quicker and more environmentally friendly to have replaced the whole road with a travellator which automatically takes the buses up the hill

 

[Gary Leeds]

the same as now, other passengers would intervene or not. not lets claim the driver will do anything, they lock their cabin and call in dispatch.

And as has been proven in the past, drivers that get involved before dispatch turn up are running the risk of being disciplined or sacked by B&H buses. If you were in their place and you felt that by leaving your seat you were running even a small risk of being sacked and nobody was in any danger, would you get up and confront the passenger?

 

[beorhthelm]

And as has been proven in the past, drivers that get involved before dispatch turn up are running the risk of being disciplined or sacked by B&H buses. If you were in their place and you felt that by leaving your seat you were running even a small risk of being sacked and nobody was in any danger, would you get up and confront the passenger?

i'm not judging their actions, just the idea that the presence of the driver has any effect on such incidents. dispatch can stop the bus, communicate to the passengers or call in the OB from remote monitoring the CCTV.

 

[Gary Leeds]

i'm not judging their actions, just the idea that the presence of the driver has any effect on such incidents. dispatch can stop the bus, communicate to the passengers or call in the OB from remote monitoring the CCTV.

I think the first call would be to send out their rapid response team to see if they can defuse any situation. Police are always last resort as it looks bad on the company

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Where is the next Maggie to make strikes illegal and benefit the nation not just a few union men.

Yes, it's time to get rid of ALL workers' rights.

What would really benefit the country would be slaves. I think we should have slaves.

How DARE workers think that their working conditions, their treatment by management, their sorry little lives should be given any consideration at all?

Put them in chains and work them till they drop.

Slackers.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Like they've got in Croydon? Works like a dream there and pushes the private motorist out to who cares where. Our town is perfect for a modern tram set-up. It's even got mini-hills like San Francisco. No reason whatsoever why trams couldn't largely replace buses in the medium term.

This this and thrice this. Brighton would be soooooo much better with a modern tram system. And when you see the chaos of the buse service on Churchill Square and North Street you all know it makes sense.

 

[Driver8]

This this and thrice this. Brighton would be soooooo much better with a modern tram system. And when you see the chaos of the buse service on Churchill Square and North Street you all know it makes sense.

Edinburgh's tram is one line, goes 14 miles, and cost £770m.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Edinburgh's tram is one line, goes 14 miles, and cost £770m.

My service will have 3: 1) from the King Alfred to the marina along sea front. 2) George Street to the bottom of North Street/The Pier along Church Road/Western Road and 3) Bottom of West Street to the station. How much will this cost do you reckon?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Indeed, I think there was a case in Leeds last year where a mother refused to either fold the buggy down or get off the bus to allow a wheelchair user onto the bus despite the driver telling her she had to. And whats really annoying is the parents that get on the bus with child in buggy, sit down and get the child out and sit them on their lap, taking a buggy space with an empty buggy

Mind you, makes you wonder how mothers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s managed to take their children shopping with a buggy and have to unload and fold it down for every bus trip.

With great difficulty. Sometimes someone would offer to help by lifting the folded pushchair onto the bus for you, whilst you held onto a toddler and tried to get the money out of your purse, but more often than not, you battled on your own.

 

[Westdene Wonder]

There are people moaning about zero hour contracts because employees do not get enough work, and now we have bus drivers threatening to go on strike because they are being asked to do overtime.

Maybe we could get all the zero hour contract people in Brighton & Hove to train as bus drivers and they could fill in when the bus drivers are tired or when they are off sick (just don't phone up the sick driver to find out when they might be back to work or we could have a mutiny on our hands).

Problem solved!

 

[AK74]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-in-netherlands-will-be-first-on-public-roads

Work in progress.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My service will have 3: 1) from the King Alfred to the marina along sea front. 2) George Street to the bottom of North Street/The Pier along Church Road/Western Road and 3) Bottom of West Street to the station. How much will this cost do you reckon?

... and not a single journey that goes anywhere where people live (like Mile Oak, Portslade, Hangleton, Tongdean, London Road, Westdene, Patcham, Hollingbury, Coldean, Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Hollingdean, Elm Grove, Kemp Town, Whitehawk, Roedean, Ovingdean, Woodingdean, Rottingdean or Saltdean), to say nothing of the out-of-town routes.

Western Road and North Street would still be full of buses.

As for costs, your three line tram network would cost about £1 billion.

 

[8ace]

My service will have 3: 1) from the King Alfred to the marina along sea front. 2) George Street to the bottom of North Street/The Pier along Church Road/Western Road and 3) Bottom of West Street to the station. How much will this cost do you reckon?

So from your gaff to your poncey craft beer pub then

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

So from your gaff to your poncey craft beer pub then

Er, yeah

Am I really this shallow and transparent?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The people of Sheffield lived with chaos for a long time whilst their tram system was built.

 

[Ernest]

Edinburgh tram system never got completed

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The people of Sheffield lived with chaos for a long time whilst their tram system was built.

What happened?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What happened?

What it says on the tin. Chaos for months.

 

[Stat Brother]

As for costs, your three line tram network would cost about £1 billion.

I'll do it for £950 million.

 

[studio150]

Edinburgh tram system never got completed

Although the main route from the Airport has been up and running for sometime