'another day on the buses'

Nothing seemed to go right on my 10:40 Salisbury to Winchester run today. As I reversed off the stand at Salisbury on of the local controllers came up to inform me that a Wilts & Dorset bus had broken down at the bus station exit and was blocking it. I’d ‘be seen’ to reverse out [...]

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Will my advert on the side of this bus bring more visitors? Bus advertising can be setup here.

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I wonder how common, or should that be rare, they are? Are there any statistics for different types of vehicle fire – cars, lorries, buses etc. based on fires per 1,000 vehicles? Yesterday one of our local buses, a Wilts & Dorset double-decker on the Active 8 route between Andover and Salisbury, caught fire according [...]

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Is how I came upon this game on the Arriva website. The actual circuitous route which led me to this I’ll save for another posting because it includes several diversions along the way! This game was the previous winner of an Arriva competition to design a game, this year’s entry form is here. Here’s a [...]

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Around 6 weeks ago I wrote about child fares. On my last trip to Salisbury today a young guy boarded the buses and asked for a child return to Salisbury. He certainly looked older than 15 but before I could say anything he said “I’ve got proof of age, all the drivers want to charge [...]

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Following yesterday’s Blogwatch posting on the Omnibuses2.0 blog (today simply renamed Omnibuses) 101 readers clicked through to read ‘another day on the buses’! This just goes to show how large a following the Omnibuses blog has – well done and a Happy 5th Birthday. I guess for the the majority of the 101 it was [...]

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