mickf

Drains used to be cleaned out on a rota with road sweeping. Can any council afford to do that now? The only time you see a gully cart is after a flood. The sweeper we get around our way carries on even when full, throwing dust into the air and leaving a trail to show where he has been.

Live maps? Do you mean Apple or Google Maps or is there something else? Sometimes the apps I've used, Bus Checker, Bus Times UK or the First one, just show timetable times or tracked buses don't turn up. I was told sometime ago, by a bus driver, that if the buses have machines that read your card or ticket code, then they should show on trackers if they are turned on.

An accurate tracking app would be useful. Particularly out in the sticks where we get a bus every half hour or less, if the bus turns up that is.

Coles Corner wasn't the place the shop is now. It was at the other end of Fargate at the junction with High St.

That's more like it.

Nice. It's pointing toward me, so if you you can make it sunny again, it would be appreciated.

Would a pub do? The Boat Inn, Sprotbrough is next to the canal and close to the lock.

These people do repairs. I've never used them but I know they have been doing it for years. My mother was at school with the founder. https://www.yell.com/biz/milton-street-dental-laboratory-ltd-rotherham-8697380/

I think it was on one of the '4' channels so it may be on All 4.

You could run X1's and X10's every five minutes on the time table but the problems start when they don't turn up. If the new time tables are adhered to great. If they come as periodically as now then what has been achieved? They should all have trackers that work on them and reductions in salary for managers if the time tables are not accurate.

Trackers would be good if they were reliable. Even busses that show as tracked often disappear, not to mention the ones that just show the time table time. I've asked First about this and was told they have problems with the tracking system. Well boo hoo, try standing waiting for a late night bus and not knowing if it was running late or not at all.

Possibly, but apart from people who work there, I don't think that many people 'just' want to go to Rotherham. They may pass through but not many stay.

BD1. I'm sorry you think I attempted to insult you. I thought I did. You seem to know a lot about the services provided to people in Maltby and Tickhill without knowing anything. The X1's and X10's all run through Rotherham. I would have thought you would know that. Still keep on telling us what we want. If I miss any of your comments I'm sure another one will be along in time. Or perhaps three at once?

You seem to think that people in Maltby only go to Sheffield to shop. Some of us do or did work and the morning and evening X7's were popular. Just as it was when it started and finished in Tickhill. A shopping time bus that only went through part of Maltby and missed out the largest collection of shops in the area, at Meadowhall, was never going to succeed. An X bus that went to Sunnyside and not Meadowhall and missed the motorway in favour of byroads has not had a lot of thought put into it. If whoever came up with the idea had asked people who may have used it, rather than 'experts' like yourself, a better offer could have been made.

It's not just the cost. I live within 300 mts of a river, although >50 mts above it, and have had some companies refuse to give me cover.