TRAVEL COVENTRY

After a day trip with Travel Coventry, I found that First bus does a much better job than Both Stagecoach and Travel Coventry...

Citybus B6LE behind!!

After staying in Coventry for a year, I've already got used to the bus service in the city.
Just don't take in too much about the scratched windows and seats, normal 10-minute late service...
and the shouting playboys and drunk men on board.

In fact I like NX Coventry more than Stagecoach in Warwickshire...at least I don't have to cope with
the crazily rising bus fares.

個日我坐你頭像個條線(12),好似係全躉.

COVENTRY大,但車都唔見架,好冇安全感...
反而BATH好細,但到處都係FIRST BUS,所以經過COVENTRY之行我覺得FIRST已經唔錯.

原帖由 ATE22 於 2009-12-22 22:19 發表
個日我坐你頭像個條線(12),好似係全躉.

COVENTRY大,但車都唔見架,好冇安全感...
反而BATH好細,但到處都係FIRST BUS,所以經過COVENTRY之行我覺得FIRST已經唔錯. ...

Yup, 12 is usually served by Tridents and B7TLs, with a few O405Ns.

I've also been to Bath. I'd say Bath and Coventry are quite different.
Coventry is an industrial city, with a small city centre but a large part of the outskirt
devoted to factories. There are not many to see and do, and the population makes
up mainly of working class and South Asian immigrants. That's probably why there
are not many frequent bus services in the city. I avoided getting out at night when
I stayed there...just felt unsafe and inconvenient in the dark.

聽我朋友話12D車好唔準時,有時仲出細車,搞到D人上唔到車返UNI,所以比人勁port,之後就用全雙層.

原帖由 ATE22 於 2009-12-23 23:26 發表
聽我朋友話12D車好唔準時,有時仲出細車,搞到D人上唔到車返UNI,所以比人勁port,之後就用全雙層.

12號線school term time一般都以雙層車為主力，但會有2-3部O405N；
不過早上有一班Earlsdon去Uni的短途加班車例牌開Solo，有時還有加班
車用B6LE……有時也不明白那班Solo開來有甚麼用，很多時未到Hearsall
Common已經頂閘。

我自己去年住on campus，不用逼12號線回campus上課，不過也聽很多住
off campus的同學投訴12號線服務，他們還開了一個facebook group叫「No.
12 bus unappreciation group」…… 不過他們反而想看到單層車多過雙層
車，因為他們經常投訴雙層巴士落客慢。

不過自己經驗12號線的班次已經算準，自己坐過其他NX Coventry線班次更飄
忽，我試過在20分鐘一班的時段等32、34號線，結果比時間表上列的時間遲了
十分鐘才到車站……
不過Stagecoach更離譜，有一次等16號線去Stratford，明明看到車站時間表寫
著0902/1002有車，我0850就到車站候車，結果0935才有車到……
而且Stagecoach又大幅加價，U1線單程竟然可以短短半年內由1.30加到2.25……
完全搶錢(雖知2.25只是坐20分鐘車程) ！

1月2日Stagecoach又加價了，NX Coventry今次就凍結車資，且看Stagecoach的
客怎樣被NX搶走……