new bus service

 Well the my first week on using the new bus service has been ok I think I have used them about 6 times, The electric buses are a lot quieter than the diesel ones obviously, it can be a bit eerie sitting on the bus and its quiet and nobody talking I guess it was always quiet in relaton to jabbering but now its noticable without the noise of the engine.

The timetable has changed too, the other day I wa was able to get the bus down to tesco and then go round tesco and catch the same bus on the way back from its final destination which was a novelty and I was able to catch a bus from a stop which it has not been possible to catch a bus really since the lockdown service was brought in well not a bus a where I live anyway and not one without having to change.  I was not that fussed about going home at that time just wanted to catch a bus home from there from that stop which as I say has not been possible for 4 years due to the introduction of the lockdown service 4 years ago this month, this was always possible before the lockdown so its nice to get some normality back I guess 

There are wireless charging points on the bus which I have not worked out how to use yet, there is also a stop annoucement on the buses which are not turned on I am not sure whether to ask them to put them on or not I guess it would take the eerieness away, the announcment of the stops are useful for peop;le who are are not from the area and for people who can't see very well i will see how it goes so to speak 

You can also track these buses which is handy so you know that they are on their way I guess, I could not track one yesterday and later I found out why it was not an electric bus but the old diesely thing that turned up apparently the they have not got the whole fleet yet its such a dissappointment when the diesly thing turnes up/

My next trip on the bus is to the foodbank to help out for a little bit later, apparently the electric buses are not going to pick up the kids from the school assuming that is because they don't want them to be vandalised, the kids are usually well behaved though and there are cameras on them anyway its no big deal as long as the kids get home safely I guess

I think there are problems with the service these big busses need to go round small country roads which one did yesterday while I was on it, no one got on it, I am not sure if anyone lives in these villages and that they are just all full of holiday homes and basically until the summer there is not point in going up that way and they might as well just send a small bus up there a couple of times a day.

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