“It's the same in Torquay, once again there was insufficient communication from Stagecoach regarding re-routing of buses when Fleet Walk was closed. The lack of information caused a lot of disruption and inconvenience to service users but Stagecoach let their customers down by ignoring them totally.
Operation manager Richard Stevens said 'the work would cause enormous disruption' but then let everybody down by not keeping customers informed as the chaos ensued.
Stagecoach services are okay but when things go wrong Richard Stevens and management don¿t seem to have a clue and kept up their reputation for bad customer service.”

“Stagecoach have got new buses but radios don't work half the time and staff toilets at the bus station aren't kept clean. Drivers do their best but are let down by poor management.”

“I was in South Lawn Terrace, Heavitree, the other day and saw A buses running together, what a waste of fuel, so much for green scheme!!”

“"the wheels on the bus go round and round
round and round
the wheels on the bus go round and round all day long"
i love that song.”

“Now, now children! behave”

“BUS operating conditions vary enormously in Exeter and services are regularly held up.

In order to allow for this a few minutes, here and there, usually at the termini, are built into ''running schedules''.

When buses make ''good progress'' there is also some waiting in the High Street because it acts as an interchange and is a significant timing point in the timetable.

When waiting more than three minutes drivers are instructed to turn off bus engines except where there is a faulty starter or some other defect and the engine has to be kept running.

The problems really start when the timetable starts going ''out of sequence'' and buses bunch up and run together.

On the A route between Alphington and Thornpark Rise, via High Street, buses regularly run in convoy and with the trailing bus running nearly empty - this is an incredible waste of fuel.

It is also very inconvenient for passengers who often have to wait for long periods and then have two or three buses running together.

Not enough is done to space buses out to approximate the timetable and the radios still don't seem to be working properly.

During much last year bus radios were not working at all.

There is often a controller logging buses through the High Street and the mystery is why they aren¿t being used to space buses out to reduce an incredible waste of resources and pointless waste of fuel.
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“You are Wrong Bryan
they might arrive on time
but then stop for a chat and a fag and then are 10 or 15 minutes late at cowick st.
George i am not Green infact i hate Green.
Up the City !”

“Gribble. If they have to wait in the high street that must mean that they are on time. if they were late they would not wait in the high street with the engine running. So, they must be running to the timetable. Not the brightest of people are you!”

“What does running to a timetable have to do with going Green? Readng your comments you are the Green one.”

“Going Green
what a joke
Why dont the drivers switch off their engines when in town at the bus stops, instead of poluting the air.
It would also help if they ran to a time table.”