{"id":2763,"date":"2023-05-24T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/bemused-by-border-buses-3\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:29:10","slug":"bemused-by-border-buses-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/bemused-by-border-buses-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemused By Border Buses (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
For Better For Worse?<\/span><\/p>\n This is confirmed by the National Rail station information pages …<\/p>\n … which are now out of date anyway with the demise of the 865 and will remain so until someone thinks of updating. The information on such pages is rarely reliable.<\/p><\/div>\n This has also been withdrawn although, as usual, there is a copy of the leaflet which includes it still available on-line!<\/p>\n The leaflet also includes fares …<\/p>\n … which, fortunately, do not stray beyond the Nottingham to Airport core – but may well be out of date anyway.<\/p><\/div>\n And, in case you didn’t spot it, the home page (above) has the brand name FOUR time on one phone screen.<\/p>\n … now what is it called? …<\/p>\n … nearly forgot, Nottsbus On Demand …<\/p>\n \u00a0… are, admittedly, somewhat better than the normal buses they replace, but that’s about it. Two minibi whizzing around these villages in a fairly arbitrary manner will never offer a better service that the buses they replace<\/span>.<\/p>\n New destinations?\u00a0<\/p>\n Interesting?<\/p>\n One incident, reported by Roger French when he rode the service (Bother, fbb cannot remember what it is called!) illustrates the problem with these less than helpful schemes.<\/p>\n His report concerned Patricia.<\/p>\n Now fbb enjoys a good bus and tram terminus, but he has to admit that two hours at Clifton South …<\/p>\n But Patricia’s misfortune was soon dealt with by Uncle Roger.<\/p>\n Snorts of derision from fbb!<\/p>\n What would have happened had nice kind Rog not stepped in?<\/p>\n And why couldn’t Marcus have done what Rog did?<\/p>\n And why couldn’t Patricia catch her 865 that she was used to, and thus make a “simple<\/span>” journey?<\/p>\n And what will happen to the many Patricias when my donation to the cause (tax) runs out and the\u00a0Notts Bus<\/span> On Demand is withdrawn and becomes the Not Bus<\/span> On Demand? Will the 865 come back – of course it won’t.<\/p>\n Questions that could be posed to the local MP who would probably not know what the questioner was talking about.<\/p>\n However, fbb did not imagine the Clifton caff!\u00a0<\/p>\n A blogger reports:-<\/p>\n