Buses could soon be 'daytime' only

“warren... i need a bus from morrisons to hanley though, and they're stopping the bus that goes past there for 7. i dunna finish til 8 grrrrr my god, bakers or arriva come and take over please!!!”

“So the council send people to Hanley to find out why people are staying away ask first bus, so Ilive on Hollybush Estate, if I want a night out in Stoke or Hanley I have to walk or get a taxi which makes it a expensive night out, this city is fast becoming a waste of space, plus why stop the service befor Christmas, thought they needed people to shop in Hanley. new bus station will be a waste of money then.”

“First Bus today published details of their revised timetables, commencing Sunday 9 December.

Monday to Friday
Service 1 – last bus from Hanley 1915, last bus from Longton 1914.
Service 2 – last bus from Hanley 1825, last bus from Longton 1834 (to Adderley Green only).
Service 5 – last bus from Hanley 1911, last bus from Abbey Hulton 1925.
Service 23 – last bus from Hanley 1855, last bus from Newstead 1922.
Service 23A – last bus from Hanley 1925, last bus from Blurton 1857

Saturday
Service 1 – last bus from Hanley 1915, last bus from Longton 1844.
Service 2 – last bus from Hanley 1855 (to Adderley Green only), last bus from Longton 1858 (to Adderley Green only).
Service 5 – last bus from Hanley 1911, last bus from Abbey Hulton 1925.
Service 23 – last bus from Hanley 1825, last bus from Newstead 1922.
Service 23A – last bus from Hanley 1925, last bus from Blurton 1847

Sunday
Service 1 – last bus from Hanley 1845, last bus from Longton 1912 (to Adderley Green only).
Service 2 – last bus from Hanley 1825to Adderley Green only), last bus from Longton 1836 to Adderley Green only.
Service 5 – last bus from Hanley 1856, 1910 from Abbey Hulton
Service 23 – last bus from Hanley 1926, last bus from Blurton 1854.
Service 23A – last bus from Hanley 1856, last bus from Blurton 1824


Merry Christmas from First!

Get on board with First – but do it before nightfall!”

“I travel from beverly drive to crewe on a friday and sunday to fetch my children as i DO NOT Own a car tht is going to put an end to these visits from my children .they propose to stop the crew bus on a sunday from the first of january also they intend to stop the number two on a sunday this contact with my children is my highlight of the week ps i have just upgraded my bus pass so i can bring my eldest child on it that was a waste of my money where do they get off telling disabled people to stay in they obvisally have mates with cars wich i dont have THANK U FOR SCREWING MY VISITS UP they should be made to do the same see how they like it this somthing you would expect from a third world country”

“Whatever creaper.....whatever!!

Just for the record, a public servant is someone who is paid from the public purse, ie civil servants, HM Forces, teachers, police, NHS, fire service ect.

So all these people are low lifes are they, servants as you quote?

You are a bit of a clown really, i bet if you told a soldier to his face that he was a low life public servant, you would be leaving his or her prescence on a stretcher.

So we are just going to ignore you now because you have made a fool of yourself again.

By the way thanks to those people who enjoy their bus travel and support it, at the end of the day it's never a good thing to lose services and even worse that the council is unwilling to tender these services out due to cutbacks.”

“being a bus driver is one step up from begging and the sooner abusdriver gets used to that, the better we will all be. For God's sake, they havent even got the brains to use a clutch.

You're a public servant, low life and very low paid maybe, but a servant none the less. Maybe you should shut your prattle and serve.”

“'On the Buses' -remember that show. Takes yer back eh! Regarding some of the comments -expert/novice alike, It might help if we remember that there are good and bad in every profession -as there are out there in the 'land of the public'.

It's when a 'bad' bus-user -meets a 'bad' bus driver -that sparks fly -sometimes big-time. I use all the local services daily -First PMT and the other smaller operators and find it in general a pleasant experience. I'd far rather be a passenger on a bus than be a driver of a car.

I'm reminded all the time, as I sit on the bus, of just how unpleasant it is to drive a car in a conurbation like that of North Staffordshire. Whenever the bus is queuing among a mixture of traffic at multi-lane junctions controlled by traffic lights, or multi-lane roundabouts -also controlled by traffic lights... and I sit there by the window looking down on the motorist, female or male, next to the bus -you can 'feel' the stress they are under.

Twitching faces, tap-tap-tap on the steering wheel, -and on hills in these situations, 'holding the vehicle stationary with two feet, instead of applying the handbrake and relaxing the whole body, -instead they have one foot on the clutch and the other on the accelerator pedal (burning the clutch to a cinder in the process), -or crouched like an elastic band, they hold the vehicle with one foot on the brake pedal -tense and troubled.

Dear oh dear oh dear.... what cars do to some people.

Rush rush rush.... frenetic, frenzied 'A to B' lifestyles.... And this is most obvious at 'home-time' -that period between 4pm and 6pm Monday to Friday -and the latter 'FRIDAY' .. well, that's something to behold. Jumping red lights is de riguer for many motorists -acceptable criminal behaviour.

No, even with the odd obnoxious bus driver, and there are without doubt some like that, give me the bus every time. My favourite 'relaxed' moment on the bus was when there were only abut six or seven passengers on it, and someone pressed the bell to stop at the next stop, and the very 'relaxed and charming bus driver' remarked, in the tone of a Butler, or Footman, 'DID SOMEONE RING'?..... We all smiled at his sense of occasion and friendly banter. Unforgettable.”

“I am really amazed that the City of Stoke on Trent doesn't run like clockwork because the number of regular posters on this site who are experts on everything under the sun is unbelievable. On the present subject First Bus is a commercial organisation who have money invested in equipment and premises , employ lots of people and have to make a profit to stay in business. Any routes that are unprofitable but deemed necessary should therefore be subsidised by the council. As for the remarks by reaper , get out and try driving a bus and facing the public , quite a few of whom are as offensive as you appear to be.”

“Ok creaper, now that you have had your hissy fit and that you have made it clear that you have some sort of complex with bus drivers, good, well done, deal with it!
What is more astounding is that you think it's shameful to go out to work and earn a wage.

Tell you what, it's best you just keep on making your self righteous comments on here, trying to crave some attention that you probably never had, basically at the end of the day nobody really gives a **** anyway, least of all me!!

Ta ra duck!”

“Oh dear, as if the shame of being a bus driver is not enough, he has to admit it in public!! Best you just get on with your serving the public, after all they pay your pittance of a wage.”