Do the bosses at First buses gain a perverse pleasure from making Colchester bus passengers late for work?
Take my morning bus, the 8.12am 62 service from the High Street to my place of work at the university.
It’s often up to ten minutes early, and one day last month was 45 minutes late; but the one thing you can guarantee is, it’s never on time.
But on Monday morning the First bosses surpassed even themselves. My bus no longer runs!
There were no posters on the busses or at the bus stops to forewarn me of this – no notice whatsoever.
In fact, after spending £130 on a yearly bus pass, there are now no busses to get me to my place of work on time, unless I choose to leave 50 minutes before my clocking-in time – and I can walk it in 45 minutes.
I feel ripped off. Oh, but there are, of course, two busses that arrive simultaneously a few minutes after my clocking-in time.
How can First bus bosses justify these actions? My old service was always packed with commuters, standing room only if a single decker.
All these commuters, surely First’s bread and butter, were not even given the courtesy of a timetable change notice.
Privatised transport has been a complete disaster.
It’s time to put it back in public hands.
Andy Abbott
East Stockwell Street
Colchester
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