brighton buses

[Barrel of Fun]

Failing miserably to update either on their crashing website, twitter or the bus stop displays. Poor show. Very poor.

Hopefully a 27 or a 77 will come along soon.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Whatever happened to the real time information? Same as with the trains, don't really care how randomly the buses come so long as I know when the next one's coming. The minute the real-time info board start showing a phone number to call is the time to start walking (while looking over yer shoulder to see if the next random bus is in sight). We are SO shit at public transport basics.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

We are SO shit at public transport basics in extreme conditions.

Edited for improved accuracy.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Whatever happened to the real time information? Same as with the trains, don't really care how randomly the buses come so long as I know when the next one's coming. The minute the real-time info board start showing a phone number to call is the time to start walking (while looking over yer shoulder to see if the next random bus is in sight). We are SO shit at public transport basics.

Indeed. The real time display was telling me to check out their abandoned twitter account.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Edited for improved accuracy.

Massive fail there then :thumbsdown:

 

[Brovion]

Whatever happened to the real time information? Same as with the trains, don't really care how randomly the buses come so long as I know when the next one's coming. The minute the real-time info board start showing a phone number to call is the time to start walking (while looking over yer shoulder to see if the next random bus is in sight). We are SO shit at public transport basics.

Yeah. I've been working in Brighton recently (just off Western Road) so I've been commuting by bus. One tiny TINY snowfall on Friday, and just when it's freezing cold and I really need them to get me up Ditchling Road the sodding useless service stops. And rather than saying 'cancelled' they just show a phone number so you don't know if your service is running or not.

And another thing (not really related but I'm ranting now). My wife has to drive round Brighton as a Community Nurse (yeah yeah 'lazy and selfish') and last year they'd arranged for people with 4x4s to come in and drive the nurses around otherwise patients in places like Woodingdean wouldn't get seen. This year that hasn't happened so this weekend she's been slipping around in her little KA as best she can; driving where possible and trudging through the snow where not. Even only making essential calls it's taken her f***ing AGES and the NHS don't pay overtime. What with that and the lack of buses we've been discussing trading up to a 4x4. It's made me think again about the role of 4x4s in Brighton I can tell you; I realise my earlier opposition to them was pathetic. Chelsea Tractors - ESSENTIAL travel for our city.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Brighton & Hove's real time bus information is getting to the stage of being clapped out. Fortunately, there are plans to replace it with something more effective and reliable over the next year or so. The system that's currently in place was a pioneering venture. The new system will be based on what is now tried and tested different technology.

 

[junior]

. This year that hasn't happened so this weekend she's been slipping around in her little KA as best she can; driving where possible and trudging through the snow where not. Even only making essential calls it's taken her f***ing AGES and the NHS don't pay overtime.