Around about 4pm this afternoon, I saw 5160 and 323 on Maroondah Hwy, heading towards Mitcham, school runs perhaps?
Unlikely I should think as it is the second week of school holidays, unless some of the private schools have gone back early?
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Around about 4pm this afternoon, I saw 5160 and 323 on Maroondah Hwy, heading towards Mitcham, school runs perhaps?
BluDART wrote:Gemilang/Scania bus 158 has entered service was seen operating a Eltham rail replacement express service on Tuesday morning (did not see rego).
PTV Live travel updates wrote:Due to service disruptions on the Manningham Loop Route 282, passengers are advised to catch Route 280 instead until the last service on Sunday, 13 May.
Twitter wrote:Transdev Melbourne @Transdev_Melb
May 10 11:48am
Due to service disruptions on the Manningham Loop R282, customers are advised to catch Route 280 instead, until further notice. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Have to pity any seniors or lost souls who follow their advice, because for a typical trip from Westfield to say Baratta Street, instead of taking 12 minutes on the #282, it would take 1 hour and 46 minutes using the #280, including a 38 minute long wait at The Pines
Agreed Scott.The service levels and adherance to their contracts is just woeful.
krustyklo wrote:Plain white 717 headed north through Greensborough on a route 901 around 7.15pm tonight.
Bus driver morale ‘very low’
Transdev employee slams commitment
Andrew Rogers
A TRANSDEV bus driver says the operator’s ongoing commitment to provide rail replacement services is leading to cranky customers and stressed out drivers.
Transdev insists it has enough buses to meet commuter requirements after a recent acquisition of 35 new vehicles.
But the driver told Manningham Leader on condition of anonymity that the company newsletter “says those buses are mostly to allow 20 older ones to be used for rail replacement and retirement of older buses”.
Transdev uses buses not needed for regular daily services to provide for rail replacement from its fleet of 500 mostly State Governmentowned vehicles.
It has a contract with the government to operate bus routes around Melbourne, including throughout Manningham, which has no trams or trains.
It also has a contract with Metro Trains to provide the replacement buses when needed.
“The main issue at the moment is fleet shortages and sending buses to do rail is making it worse,” the driver said. “Sometimes drivers ask about this issue but get no reply from the bosses, while supervisors are often told to send buses to rail instead or else.”
The driver said Transdev was “doing very little” and driver morale was “very low”.
“The shortages, which are worse when buses are sent for rail, cause lots of stress for drivers who have to deal with unhappy and sometimes abusive passengers,” he said. “I don’t think Transdev cares or realises they are an indirect cause of stress by some of the ways they operate.”
Transdev Melbourne managing director Warwick Horsley said they had “a strong commitment to improving staff engagement and our credentials as an employer of choice”.
“As part of this we regularly seek feedback on our performance from our employees. Pleasingly, our staff engagement scores have increased from 35 per cent in 2016 to 51 per cent in 2018. We recognise there is much more to do, and we are maintaining a strong focus on this area,” he said.
Dennis Dart wrote:From the Manningham Leader 21 May 2018Bus driver morale ‘very low’
Transdev employee slams commitment
“As part of this we regularly seek feedback on our performance from our employees. Pleasingly, our staff engagement scores have increased from 35 per cent in 2016 to 51 per cent in 2018. We recognise there is much more to do, and we are maintaining a strong focus on this area,” he said.
Regards,
Dennis
Dennis Dart wrote:From the Manningham Leader 21 May 2018Bus driver morale ‘very low’
Transdev employee slams commitment
Andrew Rogers
A TRANSDEV bus driver says the operator’s ongoing commitment to provide rail replacement services is leading to cranky customers and stressed out drivers.
Transdev insists it has enough buses to meet commuter requirements after a recent acquisition of 35 new vehicles.
But the driver told Manningham Leader on condition of anonymity that the company newsletter “says those buses are mostly to allow 20 older ones to be used for rail replacement and retirement of older buses”.
Transdev uses buses not needed for regular daily services to provide for rail replacement from its fleet of 500 mostly State Governmentowned vehicles.
It has a contract with the government to operate bus routes around Melbourne, including throughout Manningham, which has no trams or trains.
It also has a contract with Metro Trains to provide the replacement buses when needed.
“The main issue at the moment is fleet shortages and sending buses to do rail is making it worse,” the driver said. “Sometimes drivers ask about this issue but get no reply from the bosses, while supervisors are often told to send buses to rail instead or else.”
The driver said Transdev was “doing very little” and driver morale was “very low”.
“The shortages, which are worse when buses are sent for rail, cause lots of stress for drivers who have to deal with unhappy and sometimes abusive passengers,” he said. “I don’t think Transdev cares or realises they are an indirect cause of stress by some of the ways they operate.”
Transdev Melbourne managing director Warwick Horsley said they had “a strong commitment to improving staff engagement and our credentials as an employer of choice”.
“As part of this we regularly seek feedback on our performance from our employees. Pleasingly, our staff engagement scores have increased from 35 per cent in 2016 to 51 per cent in 2018. We recognise there is much more to do, and we are maintaining a strong focus on this area,” he said.
This to some extent explains the sighting of the plain white 717 on the 901. It appears that the twenty reserve buses will also cover Transdev's runs when they are short of serviceable buses.
Regards,
Dennis
Transdev Melbourne managing director Warwick Horsley said they had “a strong commitment to improving staff engagement and our credentials as an employer of choice”.
Horsley resigned yesterday.
Craig wrote:I am not exaggerating about the cancellation rate - waited at Tunstall Square this morning with no sign of 10:39 or 11:09 282 services nor 10:45 280 service. This meant the 282 bus was effectively coming every 90 min (i.e. 2/3 trips cancelled). Amusingly, both TDM and Mees drivers waited to changeover phantom trip at 11:09! TDM driver was then told to go back to depot!
Kind Regards
Craig
Mitch wrote:It’s just as bad in the West. I live not far from Central West Plaza on Ashley St, making Route 220 my closest route. I can’t recall the amount of times I’ve waited for buses that never show up. Even just last week I waited for the 0809 Gardenvale which didn’t show up, nor did the 0817, 0825 or the 0832. I ended up just walking to Tottenham and getting the train to Sunshine. In the midst of this, two TDM Smartbus vehicles drove past. And this is a common occurrence.
That same day an unknown CR222L was broken down in the middle lane of Ashley St outside Braybrook plaza.
Cheers,
Mitch
scott wrote:Resigned on his own terms, or pushed?
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