Tarc's Review of First Group Bus
8th Jan 2009
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Cleanliness
- Reliability
Area covered (in Glasgow). Pricing - pretty good price for a 4 week pass commuting 10+ miles on a daily level
Bad Points
Timetables. Just horrible. Has to do with reliability. Cleaniness. Hearing coke/beercans rolling on any bus is a "firstbus-thing", and is considered usual and normal.
General Comments
Timetables are the real problem. Only good thing about them is that every single stop has a unique set of timetables made specifically for that stop (timewise), pretty common thing though.
But lot of services come infrequent. Now, it would be understandable, one can always complain about something like that. But, it's the distribution, there are peaktimes, morning and afternoon, where obviously most of the passengers are using the buses (or would like to use, apparently). It's still a common complain, so nothing extra here though.
The other thing is, timetables often say "10 mins or better" etc, whereas in reality it's not even close. Once I had to wait 40 mins for a bus only to realize it was only going as far as the garage...
Another thing, when it says "At every half an hour", you just don't know WHEN it would be at the stop you want to use... should you wait half an hour or what. It doesn't say how much time it takes for a bus to get to that stop from where it started.
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