For my first Ciao op you would think that I would discuss something more engaging wouldn't you? However, this company has been responsible for ferrying my good self to School / 6th form College for several years. As such there is a sense of need on my part to pass judgement on a company that ... Read review
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Advantages: Useful as a last resort if you cannot afford a taxi Disadvantages: Buses often late, Some drivers need to calm down, Expensive
For my first Ciao op you would think that I would discuss something more engaging wouldn't you? However, this company has been responsible for ferrying my good self to School / 6th form College for several years. As such there is a sense of need on my part to pass judgement on a company that has proved mildly useful.
'Mildly useful'? Surely a service that has helped me in my pursuit of educational enlightenment, is worth more than ... ...crux of my problem with this company. It has caused more problems than it has solved to the residents of Gloucester in some way or another.
A year ago, the school bus I used was withdrawn due to what was cited as "A lack of revenue generation" (Despite the bus being more packed than a Weetabix Minibix advert). For the first time ever I would have to use the regular buses. Once I did, it occured to me why car ownership is ... more
For my first Ciao op you would think that I would discuss something more engaging wouldn't you? However, this company has been responsible for ferrying my good self to School / 6th form College for several years. As such there is a sense of need on my part to pass judgement on a company that has proved mildly useful.
'Mildly useful'? Surely a service that has helped me in my pursuit of educational enlightenment, is worth more than such faint praise?
Yet, this is the crux of my problem with this company. It has caused more problems than it has solved to the residents of Gloucester in some way or another.
A year ago, the school bus I used was withdrawn due to what was cited as "A lack of revenue generation" (Despite the bus being more packed than a Weetabix Minibix advert). For the first time ever I would have to use the regular buses. Once I did, it occured to me why car ownership is so wide-spread. The services Stagecoach provide are awful:
-Timetabling- If Stagecoach made dictionaries I'm certain this word wouldn't appear in them. The amount of times I've nearly missed school examinations or returned home 2 hours later than normal are too many to count. In a city like Gloucester this shouldn't be a problem but Stagecoach buses still manage to be late. Maybe this is a problem because of the.......
-Drivers- Ok, some of the drivers appear to be quite nice people. The odd driver or two can be useful for a quick chat as well (Just so you concentrate on a voice besides the ones belonging to the 3 mouthy 15 year old girls at the back of the bus). The rest, often feel free to sit around smoking when the bus is already 10 minutes late. They also scowl a lot and ignore you when standing at bus-stops on a rainy day (Invariably).
-Prices- These seem to be quite high, but I'll give Stagecoach the benefit of the doubt on this one. Petrol prices and imposed mandatory wage increases for drivers do not help keep prices low. Ironically, it is cheaper to take a 94 service bus to Cheltenham from Gloucester city centre but more expensive the other way round. Maybe they're trying to tell us something.........
There are plenty more experiences I can draw upon to justify this opinion but I'm not here to take vitriol to new heights. To sum this up I'd like to make a simple suggestion for travelling around Gloucester and other cities 'served' by Stagecoach:
Advantages: Buses run, some drivers plesent, local service is OK Disadvantages: Frequently late, some drivers rude, unreliable
This review covers two aspects of stagecoach service in South Wales.
Firstly the local service in Merthyr Tydfil. I use this service occasionally for short trips from my house to Merthyr town centre and back using services 80 or 81.
As a rule I find these services to be prompt and quick, although it is a short distance to cover. The drivers are usually plesent and thatnks to a recent upgrade in the buses, the vehicles are usually in good condition ... ...stagecoach is my daily commute to/from work in Cardiff, a distance of around 23 miles each way. The service for this route is the X4 which runs every 15 mins between the two locations between 6:55 and 6:05 each day. Then hourly after that.
Typically for the journey in to work I catch the 6:55 at it's third stop, Hoover Main gate, by this time there are already few seats left (as the bus has previously came from further up the valley before merthyr) ...
BadDay 08.11.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Stagecoach/Provincial
Advantages: Frequent service Disadvantages: Sometimes dirty
You think that at last you have escaped the UK and that you will be able to relax and forget your troubles which can be left behind in Britain. But if you want to escape British commercialism and all of its large companies, you’re in for a letdown.
For the recommendation is that you catch the bus from the airport to the hotel/town/lodging… and you hope to have been set free from Elizabeth II’s land. Think again. For the bus you ... ...board is a Stagecoach one.
Yes, continuing my mad tour of NZ, today we look at the buses operated around the place, the company? Stagecoach New Zealand. The cities? Wellington and Auckland, the largest cities in the country. In today’s relatively brief op we explore the world of NZ buses.
A Background…
Stagecoach have literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of vehicles in New Zealand offering services which span the country. It is not ...
danieletheridge 30.03.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Stagecoach/Provincial
Advantages: You can get to places that you want (sometimes), relatively new vehicles Disadvantages: very expensive, lack of knowldge, manners
My experience of first provincial is not good. Living in Portsmouth, there are two bus companies, First and Stagecoach, neither are excellent, though each have their own merits and advantages. The vehicles
These can vary from journey to journey, you could have a brand new omnicity (new last december) or a relatively new volvo (w or s reg) or a vehicle around this era. Also you could get a surprise, a very old, noisy, dirty, rarely cleaned minibus ... ...problem with this (being a bit of a lover of nostalgia), its the price that im paying for this that I do have a problem with!
The price The price of the journey, in my opinion, is poor value for money. It costs me £1.15 to go from my home (North End) to Commercial Road (about a mile and a half away). This may sound reasonable, but when compared with Stagecoach which charges arond £1 for the same journey, using very similar vehicles, you start to ...
Taylor28 22.04.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Stagecoach/Provincial
Advantages: quicker than walking sometimes, my dad drives ffor another branch of this company Disadvantages: the price, nightbus service
I rely on public transport to get me about most of the time. Sometimes I am lucky enough to get a lift with my housemate Frank but most of the time it is either Shank’s Pony or the No 50 bus kindly provided by Mr. Souter of stagecoach. So are Stagecoach Manchester any good or am I left champing at the bit as I wait for hours on hours for a non-existent bus as it has been cancelled.
Who Are Stagecoach?
Stagecoach is a multinational company founded ... ...main way of building up their multinational empire was to buy bus companies, deliver ridiculously cheap fares that would drive off all competition. This happened in my own hometown of Dumfries. Once there was Western Scottish PLC that my dad drove for but it was acquired by Stagecoach and firms such as Dicksonss buses folded and my daddy got a new boss as well as a new uniform and a new coloured bus. This also happened in Africa, New Zealand and ...
duskmaiden 26.09.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Stagecoach/Provincial
Advantages: Sometimes you can actually get to your destination! Disadvantages: Expensive and unreliable
Stagecoach! Pah! Like most areas the deregulation of bus services some years ago led to a multitude of different bus companies running services within the same area.
Where I live (Surrey) we have as our main bus companies Arriva, Stagecoach, Green Line and Safeguard. Stagecoach sticks out like a sore thumb for poor (non-existent almost!) customer service aswell as being hideously overpriced.
In my area there are a couple of long routes they run ... ...a nearby town about 8 miles away - about a 35 minute journey. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had problems with this so-called service. It supposedly runs every half hour until about 6.30pm when there is one bus about every hour or so until about 10pm. The return fare for the journey is £3.10 - very expensive compared to the other companies.
I've been left stranded at the other end of my journey unable to return home on many occasions ...
blurbubble 15.03.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Stagecoach/Provincial
New fleets for new routes, and the majourity of the older buses repainted if not completely refurbished both inside and out., Lots of new training bus
High fares for all services (although I hope these are only to cover short term losses and will be reconcidered when all services are stable). No chan (*)
