{"id":3693,"date":"2024-01-21T02:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T02:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-32\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T02:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T02:30:26","slug":"sunday-variety-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
Parkway Parking Pricing Problem<\/span><\/p>\n … with a large direction sign and a lavish (?) bus shelter.<\/p><\/div>\n The station is at Cllffsend just to the west of Ramsgate and, although staffed, is blessed with narrow platforms and not much shelter.<\/p>\n The xx37 is typical, taking one hour and fourteen minutes for the journey, so it is fast compared with normal South Eastern trains!<\/p><\/div>\n Clearly the price has not gone down well with the locals.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Prince Bishops, X Rated?<\/span><\/p>\n Good, innit?<\/p><\/div>\n This runs every 30 minutes and picks up the Langley Park service and, presumably (there are no maps!) the 20\/30A variant south of Sunderland. So for most passengers there is the promoted 50% improvement Monday to Saturday.<\/p><\/div>\n It was one of the services to be re-branded “X lines” some time ago …<\/p>\n … complete with a purple wedge on the livery hinting at the episcopal royalty of its non-X service 20.<\/p>\n It later ganed full-sized single deckers.<\/p>\n In one version of the X20 buses were only hourly on Saturdays, so that is a progressive improvement starting in a week.<\/p>\n fbb guesses that the withdrawal of the X20 was Covid related and the “improvement” actually only puts these\u00a0 routes back to where they were. Nevertheless it is good news for the snivelling minions as they touch their forelocks to the Prince Bishops, that’ll the buses not a rebirth of history’s leadership!<\/p><\/div>\n It would appear that the fleet is being shared with Stagecoach.<\/p><\/div>\n Over half the bill is provided by you and me, and we were never asked!<\/p><\/div>\n Seems a ood idea if the technology is sound and the equipment is vandal-proof!<\/p>\n This video shows one in operation.<\/p>\n So fbb paid – quickly and on-line.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n