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Everyone's favourate bus company is tonight celebrating after it's bus timetable has been awarded this year's Booker Prize for Fiction.

The judges were especially impressed with the great imagianation shown within this fine publication which they felt held a special sureal and other-worldly quality.

One judge said:

"This is a marvalous work of fiction. It's genius is that it is set in a parallel universe inhabited by buses and bus drivers that arrive regually and on time. I just don't know how they think these things up".

Gary Nolan, haed of FSY said:

"We are truely honoured to receive this award and the large cheque that comes with it. I shall use this money wisely to increase my already large bonus and buy a new car".

Well done First.

:banana::clap::partyhat:

Everyone's favourate bus company is tonight celebrating after it's bus timetable has been awarded this year's Booker Prize for Fiction.

The judges were especially impressed with the great imagianation shown within this fine publication which they felt held a special sureal and other-worldly quality.

One judge said:

"This is a marvalous work of fiction. It's genius is that it is set in a parallel universe inhabited by buses and bus drivers that arrive regually and on time. I just don't know how they think these things up".

Gary Nolan, haed of FSY said:

"We are truely honoured to receive this award and the large cheque that comes with it. I shall use this money wisely to increase my already large bonus and buy a new car".

Well done First.

They must be well loved they always seem to be crammed full in Sheffield.

:banana::clap::partyhat:

Everyone's favourate bus company is tonight celebrating after it's bus timetable has been awarded this year's Booker Prize for Fiction.

The judges were especially impressed with the great imagianation shown within this fine publication which they felt held a special sureal and other-worldly quality.

One judge said:

"This is a marvalous work of fiction. It's genius is that it is set in a parallel universe inhabited by buses and bus drivers that arrive regually and on time. I just don't know how they think these things up".

Gary Nolan, haed of FSY said:

"We are truely honoured to receive this award and the large cheque that comes with it. I shall use this money wisely to increase my already large bonus and buy a new car".

Well done First.


There must be some attraction as they always seem to have your attention.

:banana::clap::partyhat:

Everyone's favourate bus company is tonight celebrating after it's bus timetable has been awarded this year's Booker Prize for Fiction.

The judges were especially impressed with the great imagianation shown within this fine publication which they felt held a special sureal and other-worldly quality.

One judge said:

"This is a marvalous work of fiction. It's genius is that it is set in a parallel universe inhabited by buses and bus drivers that arrive regually and on time. I just don't know how they think these things up".




Gary Nolan, haed of FSY said:

"We are truely honoured to receive this award and the large cheque that comes with it. I shall use this money wisely to increase my already large bonus and buy a new car".

Well done First.


This is a brilliant example of the small minded out of touch, uninformed attitude of some users of SF :

Gary Nolan as not been the head of FSY for around 18 months he went to stagecoach - there was a thread on this forum :


http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=99409&highlight=garry+nolan

Actualy thinking about it,if you take the OP's past posts about how to attract women/get a girlfriend,coupled with an un healthy fascination with Emma Bunton throw in a few bus related items and snippets of stuff about de-regulation,,,,I see a pattern here.

Do you by any chance have a thermos flask and hang around Interchanges with a notepad:hihi:just wondered like

Actualy thinking about it,if you take the OP's past posts about how to attract women/get a girlfriend,coupled with an un healthy fascination with Emma Bunton throw in a few bus related items and snippets of stuff about de-regulation,,,,I see a pattern here.

Do you by any chance have a thermos flask and hang around Interchanges with a notepad:hihi:just wondered like

No

or are you talking about slimsid2000

Very funny SlimSid. :hihi:

Do you by any chance have a thermos flask and hang around Interchanges with a notepad:hihi:just wondered like

Alas yes. I am a bus driver groupy and just cannot get enough of them.

:banana::clap::partyhat:

Everyone's favourate bus company is tonight celebrating after it's bus timetable has been awarded this year's Booker Prize for Fiction.

The judges were especially impressed with the great imagianation shown within this fine publication which they felt held a special sureal and other-worldly quality.

One judge said:

"This is a marvalous work of fiction. It's genius is that it is set in a parallel universe inhabited by buses and bus drivers that arrive regually and on time. I just don't know how they think these things up".

Gary Nolan, haed of FSY said:

"We are truely honoured to receive this award and the large cheque that comes with it. I shall use this money wisely to increase my already large bonus and buy a new car".

Well done First.
Your research is very poor as G.Nolan left first approx 18 months ago to take over Lincolnshire road car!!!

Gary Nolan left in March 2006... If you're going to post nonsense you could at least do your research.

They must be well loved they always seem to be crammed full in Sheffield.

why you think there crammed full? too much of a monopoly thats why if stagecoach get more routes in areas that they dont go at the moment it will change

Gary Nolan left in March 2006... If you're going to post nonsense you could at least do your research.

Err thats what I said

True, I didn't read the whole thread, just the first post.

Oh by the way did anybody know that the fares are going up again in january?it's getting to that time of year again where shareholders/directors are thinking about pay rises for the staff & to top it off another hike in prices come april :shakes: They've taken away what little they could offer (£1 fares mon - thurs 7pm till 11pm) & other offers they had on "tight wads".

Just thought i'd let you all know in advance.

Oh by the way did anybody know that the fares are going up again in january?it's getting to that time of year again where shareholders/directors are thinking about pay rises for the staff & to top it off another hike in prices come april :shakes: They've taken away what little they could offer (£1 fares mon - thurs 7pm till 11pm) & other offers they had on "tight wads".

Just thought i'd let you all know in advance.

Where did you get all this from ?

Where did you get all this from ?

Employed there :help:

And just for everyone's benefit Mark1971, how do you know so much?

No offence, but in my experience comments like that come from a canteen and are far from facts. And trust me, having worked in the industry for a long time (not in Sheffield recently though) i've heard them all.

Perhaps you could enlighten us as to which offers have gone (it was £1 on the last evening bus i used the other night) and how you can be so sure that fares change in January and April.

Sounds like idle gossip designed to excite people to me.

I questioned the guy who's job it is to place the promotions to buses as to why he was taking the £1 fare stickers from the windscreens & the £3 day saver/rider from the windows & he turned round & said because the fares are going up in january,i turned round & said your not serious!his reply was thats what my gaffer told me why do you think i'm taking down the promotions?He also said that the fares will probably rise again in april,now take that as idle gossip if you want but i'm only posting what i've been told by somebody in the know.

The guy who removes posters is 'someone in the know'?

The guy who removes posters is 'someone in the know'?

yes he is..................

[QUOTE=Cyclone;2895163]The guy who removes posters is 'someone in the know'?

Why not go back & read what i posted?All i'm doing is informing the fine folk of sheffield what to expect.

Oh by the way did anybody know that the fares are going up again in january?it's getting to that time of year again where shareholders/directors are thinking about pay rises for the staff & to top it off another hike in prices come april :shakes: They've taken away what little they could offer (£1 fares mon - thurs 7pm till 11pm) & other offers they had on "tight wads".

Just thought i'd let you all know in advance.

get yer self 3 mates to travel with and book a taxi,its a far better way to travel and cheaper :)

I haven't caught a bus in roughly 2 years due to First being, well lets be honest, absoltutely dreadful. I put this aside at the weekend, looked up the timetable on the internet, walkled down to my local bus stop and guess what? Correct, the bus never turned up. Obviously, i'm now back to using my car.

(To the tune of The Red Flag)

The people's bus is white and pink,
it's often late it sometimes stinks,
it smells of fags,
and chips and beer,
we clean it out,
once a year

Chorus

Don't catch a bus,
don't make a fuss,
we're all on strike,
there is no bus.

The driver turns up very late,
he look a mess,
a dreadful state,
he has not shaved,
for near a week,
his shirt is stained,
his trousers wreak,

(Chorus)

The frequency is down by half,
the seats are fine if you're a dwarf,
the seats are made,
for those who're small,
they're bleedin hard,
and stained an all

(Chorus)

Gary Nolan left in March 2006... If you're going to post nonsense you could at least do your research.

I've never forgiven him for "Are Friends Electric".....

Someone who's removed a few posters is in the know. Interesting, perhaps the cleaner is the managing director and my mother is the all mighty.

I'm not saying that he doesn't know something, but hell i find it unlikely that he'd be so clued up as to know the intimate secrets of the world.

And as for Slimsid - god you are almost depressingly pathetically predictable. Don't you have something better to do with your days. If you hate First so much, don't use them - simple really.

just watch this space

Oh by the way did anybody know that the fares are going up again in january?it's getting to that time of year again where shareholders/directors are thinking about pay rises for the staff & to top it off another hike in prices come april :shakes: They've taken away what little they could offer (£1 fares mon - thurs 7pm till 11pm) & other offers they had on "tight wads".

Just thought i'd let you all know in advance.

I am not sure about First in Sheffield but First Bristol are raising the fares in January by about 20p per fare according to the local press in Bristol and the natives are not happy about this and the service in general.
So that probably means they will up them in South Yorks by the same or even more

very funny OP.

what can be done about first, has anyone got any ideas? it's no use sitting around moaning, something has to be done about this. i can no longer rely on a bus to get me into town. 4 out of 5 times i go for a 20 or 20A it doesn't turn up or turns up at least 10 minutes late. this is just not acceptable. my partner waited for a bus for 30 minutes this morning....at rush hour when they're scheduled regularly.

has anyone thought of people clubbing together to actually take some action about the fact that one of sheffield's main infrastructures is so poorly lettting the city down?

what point is there in spending millions to make the city centre look fantastic if the citizens of the city can't get from A to B on the city's public transport system?

first are turning sheffield into a laughing stock and no-one seems to care...

I questioned the guy who's job it is to place the promotions to buses as to why he was taking the £1 fare stickers from the windscreens & the £3 day saver/rider from the windows & he turned round & said because the fares are going up in january,i turned round & said your not serious!his reply was thats what my gaffer told me why do you think i'm taking down the promotions?He also said that the fares will probably rise again in april,now take that as idle gossip if you want but i'm only posting what i've been told by somebody in the know.

Glad to see the engineering department is not sitting around endulging in idle chit chat,maybe the stickers are required to hold the buses together.

Yes the drivers are getting a pay rise in april,but this is part of the last 3 year pay deal.
The stickers could be removed due to vehicles being transfered to Rotherham maybe:hihi:
The fares are up for review in January (as always),knowing how First operate (or not in some cases) its unlikey that such information would filter down to the cheif sticker remover.
There is more cloak and dagger stuff going on there than a bucket of cloak and daggers on planet cloak and dagger on national cloak and dagger day.

Oh and tell the sticker guy hes missed some as some of the buses still dislpay the £1 fare stickers and £3 ones too.

UPDATED fare changes as follows from jan 5th 08
FirstWeek South Yorkshire
WAS £16.00 NOW £17.00

FirstWeek Sheffield
WAS £15.00 NOW £15.00

FirstWeek Student South Yorkshire
WAS £13.00 NOW £13.00

FirstWeek Student Sheffield
WAS £10.00 NOW £10.00

FirstWeek Orange
WAS £5.00 NOW £5.00

FirstWeek Red
WAS £5.00 NOW £5.00

6 Day Stocksbridge Saver
WAS £8.50 NOW £8.50

FirstDay Group
WAS £7.50 NOW £7.00

FirstDay Orange
WAS £2.00 NOW £2.00

FirstDay Red
WAS £2.00 NOW £2.00

Sheffield Tesco Park&Ride Service 85
WAS £2.50 NOW £2.50

FirstDay South Yorkshire
WAS £4.00 NOW £4.00

FirstDay Sheffield
WAS £3.00 NOW £3.50

FirstXtra
WAS £1.00 NOW £1.00

Sheffield Evening Fare (Sun-Thurs after 7pm)
WAS £1.00 NOW £1.00

Sheffield Centro
WAS 50p NOW 50p

Doncaster Centro
WAS 40p NOW 40p

Dog
WAS 25p NOW 40p

Adult single
WAS 70p NOW 70p

Adult single (Orange)
WAS £100 NOW £110

Adult single
WAS £110 NOW £110

Adult Single
WAS £160 NOW £140

Adult single (Orange)
WAS £140 NOW £140

Adult single (Orange)
WAS £150 NOW £170

Adult single
WAS £160 NOW £170

Adult single
WAS £170 NOW £170

Adult single
WAS £190 NOW £200

Adult single
WAS £2.00 NOW £2.00

Adult single
WAS £2.20 NOW £2.30

Adult single
WAS £2.50 NOW £2.60

Adult single
WAS £2.90 NOW £3.00

very funny OP.


what point is there in spending millions to make the city centre look fantastic?


Now there is part of your answer

The guy who removes posters is 'someone in the know'?

Looks like he is, see the thread about fare increases.

Someone who's removed a few posters is in the know. Interesting, perhaps the cleaner is the managing director and my mother is the all mighty.

I'm not saying that he doesn't know something, but hell i find it unlikely that he'd be so clued up as to know the intimate secrets of the world.

And as for Slimsid - god you are almost depressingly pathetically predictable. Don't you have something better to do with your days. If you hate First so much, don't use them - simple really.

Well looks like he did know

Well looks like he did know

Agreed,however he will be in trouble for removing the £1 evening fare ones for being a little over enthusiastic

I must they their service is great but far too expensive!

very funny OP.

what can be done about first, has anyone got any ideas? it's no use sitting around moaning, something has to be done about this. i can no longer rely on a bus to get me into town. 4 out of 5 times i go for a 20 or 20A it doesn't turn up or turns up at least 10 minutes late. this is just not acceptable. my partner waited for a bus for 30 minutes this morning....at rush hour when they're scheduled regularly.

has anyone thought of people clubbing together to actually take some action about the fact that one of sheffield's main infrastructures is so poorly lettting the city down?

what point is there in spending millions to make the city centre look fantastic if the citizens of the city can't get from A to B on the city's public transport system?

first are turning sheffield into a laughing stock and no-one seems to care...

I don't know about Worst being a laughing stock, its the punters who are the laughing stock. :rant:

Glad to see the engineering department is not sitting around endulging in idle chit chat,maybe the stickers are required to hold the buses together.

Yes the drivers are getting a pay rise in april,but this is part of the last 3 year pay deal.
The stickers could be removed due to vehicles being transfered to Rotherham maybe:hihi:
The fares are up for review in January (as always),knowing how First operate (or not in some cases) its unlikey that such information would filter down to the cheif sticker remover.
There is more cloak and dagger stuff going on there than a bucket of cloak and daggers on planet cloak and dagger on national cloak and dagger day.

Oh and tell the sticker guy hes missed some as some of the buses still dislpay the £1 fare stickers and £3 ones too.

UPDATED fare changes as follows from jan 5th 08
FirstWeek South Yorkshire
WAS £16.00 NOW £17.00

FirstWeek Sheffield
WAS £15.00 NOW £15.00

FirstWeek Student South Yorkshire
WAS £13.00 NOW £13.00

FirstWeek Student Sheffield
WAS £10.00 NOW £10.00

FirstWeek Orange
WAS £5.00 NOW £5.00

FirstWeek Red
WAS £5.00 NOW £5.00

6 Day Stocksbridge Saver
WAS £8.50 NOW £8.50

FirstDay Group
WAS £7.50 NOW £7.00

FirstDay Orange
WAS £2.00 NOW £2.00

FirstDay Red
WAS £2.00 NOW £2.00

Sheffield Tesco Park&Ride Service 85
WAS £2.50 NOW £2.50

FirstDay South Yorkshire
WAS £4.00 NOW £4.00

FirstDay Sheffield
WAS £3.00 NOW £3.50

FirstXtra
WAS £1.00 NOW £1.00

Sheffield Evening Fare (Sun-Thurs after 7pm)
WAS £1.00 NOW £1.00

Sheffield Centro
WAS 50p NOW 50p

Doncaster Centro
WAS 40p NOW 40p

Dog
WAS 25p NOW 40p

Adult single
WAS 70p NOW 70p

Adult single (Orange)
WAS £100 NOW £110

Adult single
WAS £110 NOW £110

Adult Single
WAS £160 NOW £140

Adult single (Orange)
WAS £140 NOW £140

Adult single (Orange)
WAS £150 NOW £170

Adult single
WAS £160 NOW £170

Adult single
WAS £170 NOW £170

Adult single
WAS £190 NOW £200

Adult single
WAS £2.00 NOW £2.00

Adult single
WAS £2.20 NOW £2.30

Adult single
WAS £2.50 NOW £2.60

Adult single
WAS £2.90 NOW £3.00


Possibly you can explain the 4 rises in fares a couple of years ago?

I dont think I will be catching the bus again if it is £170 each way:hihi:

Possibly you can explain the 4 rises in fares a couple of years ago?

Maybe the commercial department could help you there.I dont trouble myself with such Issues

Maybe the commercial department could help you there.I dont trouble myself with such Issues

Without fobbing me off i'm asking you seeing how you seem to know quiet a bit,I merely warned of this rise in another thread & now i've been proven right,will i be proven right again in april when the fares will be hiked yet again?

They must be well loved they always seem to be crammed full in Sheffield.

The ones that are crammed full are the ones that eventually turned up after the first two buses you were waiting for didn't.