Paignton Bus Station isn't very big. The buses drive on to their stop and then after letting everyone off and on, they reverse off. Problem is there is a fairly large garage in the way. This didn't present too much of a difficulty but now we have more buses going in and out of the station and we are using longer buses which have less room to swing round. Here the driver and controller examine the slight damage done to the bus after it had made contact with the garage wall. They didn't bother looking at the garage wall. With all the marks it would be hard work to know which one had just been placed there.
Plan A is that at some time soon, that's soon in human terms not tectonic plate movement terms, the Bus Station is going to be pulled down and rebuilt. Or maybe Plan B, which is let it fall down and then rebuild it.
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Ah.
Hmmmmmmm.
Is this a sexist post?
Are we showing the bus damaged by a Female driver, without showing, for balance, buses damaged by Male drivers?
Because women drivers are better, you know.
(OK... my wife has left the room...)
I thought it was called Jedi Reversing....... just feel the force (of the wall)
Or is the lady the controller?????
Of course, there's always plan C.....
Erect a row of steel posts by the garage to protect it (and give you even less room to reverse)
I bet that's the one that management choose.....
Long ago, we served a local Greyhound depot. About 15 years ago, the station agent gave up and sold the depot to another business. Buses from four different companies continued to stop at the building, which now has signs in the parking lot: "No bus parking. You will be towed!" and on the door: "No bus change. Don't Ask!"
Ten years ago the city proposed building a new bus station. Questionnaires were distributed to customers of all four companies.
Now word has reached us that the new depot has been built, a mile from any of our routes.
In the coming months we are expecting to begin internal discussions as to the advisability of routing buses to the new terminal.
In the meantime, the city has gone to great lengths to make it difficult to get to the old depot: Widening the side walks and placing steel posts at the corners so that it impossible to make the turn into the street if there is oncoming traffic.
The other day, I said, "Hell, they've done everything but dig a trench across the street." The next day I came to work and discovered a city crew digging a trench across the street.
Andy C. No sexist posts on my blog. I just report what happened. If you search the blog carefull you will find some where a post about a female driver hitting the garage I am sure.
Think laterally - you could redevelop the whole site if you let the buses demolish the garage!
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