Re: [OT] Was Re: Outer East PT sidelined: Scoresby Fwy back on agenda

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com>]

Well, they've improved slightly under their new boss (who, for example,
actually talks to the PTUA occasionally).

They have in the past however,
* Cut services every year for the last 5 years
* Re-organised routes to more explicitly compete with the rail system
* Chased away 25% of their passengers in their first year of operation
* Eroded the multimodal nature of the system in a variety of ways
(vehicle and staff uniforms colour schemes, timetable co-ordination,
introducing bus-only tickets, and above all focussing on their own
freeway buses rather than feeding to the trains)

Vaughan

> However, after my brother applied for a job with them (he has
> experience driving fire trucks with the CFA and has started applying
to
> bus companies for full time jobs) and seeing how well they treated him
> recommending he attend a course with the Bus Proprietors Association
> and come back in six months, rather than the usual 'Sorry, you haven't
> been successful now go away and stop bothering us', I must admit I
> think NBC aren't as bad as people make out. What have they done to
> annoy people? As a resident in the Greensborough area (until recently
> when I moved to Rosanna), I can honestly say that even now the bus
> service is better than when the Met used to run it. There are buses on
> Saturday and Sunday, the weekday off peak buses run every 30 minutes,
> instead of every hour and the peak hour buses run to a sort of regular
> frequency instead of the old 3.39,3.50,4.24,5.02 sort of service we
> used to have (these are times from Box Hill to Greensborough by the
> way). This is even after NBC cut back the Sunday services from every
> hour to every 80 minutes to evry 2 hours.
>
> So come on, put up or shut up!!!!!!!!
>
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