Yikes, have I done 11 of these already. Ah well here we go and please remember to keep the questions comming
regengirl
How often do buses get cleaned? The no. 11 is smelling nasty today
Now with me being on nights earlier in the week I met up with one of our wonderful cleaners and asked her this question. I found out that although all the buses in the depot are swept off every night. That is they get cleared of all rubbish every night as they come into the depot. Now there is another sort of cleaning that they call a “Deep Clean” this means that they scrub the floors, remove any graffiti and try and make the bus look better that it was. This process can take upto 4 hours and at our garage there is 4 hours between the last bus arriving and the first bus going out. This limits the number of buses that receive the deep clean to about 8 a night so it can take quite a while.
star_one How are route numbers decided ? Honestly I have no idea. There seems to be no logical sense to the order or the numbering the only ones that I know is that the 900 series of routes should be a limited stop route and the 800 are school and works services but other than that I don’t know and no one I asked knew either.
How come you get odd gaps in runs of numbers with other routes in the middle? This is mainly to do with routes being withdrawn and leaving space for additional routes that spur off the original. But actually I think that it is done just because they forget sometimes.
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Hello TWM Driver,
Do you know why some bus drivers try to get as close to the car in front of them?
I find this happens quite frequently when I take my car out and I have to stop in traffic, or at light. It seems that the bus driver is only happy to come to a complete stop when he is one inch away from the back of my car.
I have tried inching forward to incread the gap, but some drivers just inch forward more to close the gap. They seem to get dangerously close at time.
Any thoughts on this?
Very nice!!