{"id":1098,"date":"2010-12-08T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2010-12-08T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T20:58:16","slug":"stagecoach-chief-brian-souter-mulls-dedicated-granny-bus-for-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Stagecoach chief Brian Souter mulls dedicated ‘Granny Bus’ for pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s a headline from The Daily Telegraph<\/a> of today.<\/p>\n

Brian Souter is obviously unaware that Stagecoach in Winchester already run such a bus – the 6A service. I honestly can’t recall the last time I had a fare paying passenger on this service. It would however be unfair to call it a ‘Granny Bus’ because at least as many Grandads use the service. The 6A service is a 20 minute loop around what is almost predominately areas of housing for the elderly. What I hate most about the route is that the timings are set as if it were a mixed passenger type route not one where you have to wait whilst each passenger slowly makes their way to a seat and then with arthritic joints slowly lowers themselves into a sitting position. The other problem is that due to the narrow roads and tight bends a low floor bus would struggle in places so a stepped Dart is allocated to the route. Our stepped Darts have a pole in the middle of the steps and it’s painful to observe passengers struggling to raise their feet high enough for each step whilst trying to lift and manoeuvre a shopping trolley or walking frame around the other side of the pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s a headline from The Daily Telegraph of today. Brian Souter is obviously unaware that Stagecoach in Winchester already run such a bus – the 6A service. I honestly can’t recall the last time I had a fare paying passenger on this service. It would however be unfair to call it a ‘Granny Bus’ because […]<\/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\/1098"}],"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=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}