{"id":1089,"date":"2010-11-29T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:02:08","slug":"the-southern-vectis-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Vectis blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/philstockley.blogspot.com\/\">Purple Bus Blog<\/a> reminded me that perhaps I should remove the Blogroll link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandbuses.info\/wordpress\/\">Southern Vectis Bus<\/a> company blog which rarely had anything added to it.  I clicked on the link one final time just to confirm that it was still moribund and discovered that it&#8217;s sprung into life again!<\/p>\n<p>I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandbuses.info\/wordpress\/?p=184\">charming post<\/a> from 26 October which included, amongst other things, the revised Route 8 timetable being dedicated to Mrs Mary Ward of Bembridge &#8216;for continually nagging&#8217; about its timing problems!<\/p>\n<p>The most recent posting is about their new ERG TP5000 (I think I&#8217;ve mentioned those <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=811\">before<\/a> !) ticket machines which are being introduced in 2 weeks time.  Tellingly they wrote &#8216;The first phase has been a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcre-zoning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of our current bus stops which took place last week to create a manageable number of point to point (or rather zone to zone) fares for the new system.&#8217;  In order to reduce the number of key presses required to issue a ticket?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about the Purple Bus Blog reminded me that perhaps I should remove the Blogroll link to the Southern Vectis Bus company blog which rarely had anything added to it. I clicked on the link one final time just to confirm that it was still moribund and discovered that it&#8217;s sprung into life again! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}