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Post by Nortube on Oct 24, 2014 16:02:21 GMT
Like the Underground with there permanent Good Service when the job's up the wall, it seems like the buses don't want people to know when the services are disrupted. An incident happened at 14:30, closing a route used by buses in both directions. The buses were subsequently diverted. It took them two hours before they finally decided to mention on the status site that buses were on diversion. Until then, whatever affected bus route or bus stop was looked at, the status was:
No reported disruptions
There are no reported disruptions on this route
Nice to see that where LU lead, others follow!
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Post by railtechnician on Oct 24, 2014 16:57:28 GMT
Like the Underground with there permanent Good Service when the job's up the wall, it seems like the buses don't want people to know when the services are disrupted. An incident happened at 14:30, closing a route used by buses in both directions. The buses were subsequently diverted. It took them two hours before they finally decided to mention on the status site that buses were on diversion. Until then, whatever affected bus route or bus stop was looked at, the status was: No reported disruptions There are no reported disruptions on this route Nice to see that where LU lead, others follow! Never forget that as long as the 'sheep' are unaware of a disruption to normal routine their actions will be predictable as they are invariably set upon a fixed course. The same may or may not be so once a disruption is announced especially as custom and practice is to 'manage' crowds to the point of preventing access in the worst case scenarios. Being 'in the job' didn't often help with Underground disruption as operating staff on stations were programmed to disseminate the usual unhelpful suggestions about alternative means to reach a destination, one had to ring the control room and speak to one's close colleagues to get the real picture. I have to say that I never found buses as bad as the road Inspectors used to be quite candid regarding the specifics back in the day. Of course corporate TfL just like the Met police likes to corral passengers whether unruly or not and seems to go out of its way at times to be awkward under the guise of managing the event by way of crowd control. Such has always been particularly bad on the tube in the rush hours and of course everyone has no doubt experienced chaos on match days in the football season both above and below ground (IMHO the best way to manage that would be to ban the so called beautiful game [it's not beautiful and there's no sport in it] from the capital altogether). Of course Londoners are spoiled for public transport and so they really should walk more and leave the buses and tubes to those with far to go and those with physical mobility problems. |
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