General discussion - "gossip and tittle tattle"
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BeachBum
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by BeachBum » 23 Feb 2009, 08:07
Does anyone else use this?
It basically does the same as the countdown thingys at bus stops telling you when the next bus is going to be.
Once again, its all to pot this morning.
Im begining to wonder what the point is in having his website it has so much downtime and now its all wonky.
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Pal of Porty
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by Pal of Porty » 23 Feb 2009, 10:28
Could not agree more. I love the tracker system at the bus stops but with regard to the web site - well, I am quicker leaving my house and walking along to the nearest bus stop to see when the next bus is due.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
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seashell
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by seashell » 23 Feb 2009, 19:35
BeachBum wrote:Does anyone else use this?
It basically does the same as the countdown thingys at bus stops telling you when the next bus is going to be.
Once again, its all to pot this morning.
Im begining to wonder what the point is in having his website it has so much downtime and now its all wonky.
I use it - there is one bus service running from Meadowbank House to my home - and the buses only run twice an hour. Bustracker is great - it means I don't have to stand about waiting for ages - as Lothian buses are notoriously fickle in their allegiance to timetables.
I think it's a brill service - and it's never been down when I've been using it.
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BeachBum
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by BeachBum » 23 Feb 2009, 19:51
I use it several times a day.
Its starting to have a lot of down time.
Then there was this morning when it was all to pot.
As for the comment about it being slow. Thats not something ive ever experinced. At home I have the town hall bus stop set as my homepage and it loads really fast. But the down time is starting to really mount up. On saturday it was down for several hours. One night through the week it was down. last weekend it was down for a couple of hours. Its a joke..lol
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BeachBum
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by BeachBum » 28 Feb 2009, 19:19
And once again its down.......its a pointless website, to be any real use it needs to be reliable in terms of being working alot of the time.
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SoupDragon
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by SoupDragon » 28 Feb 2009, 19:58
Why on earth would you think the website would be reliable when the signs at the bus stop cseem to be pure fiction?
ie last night my son was at the one in the High St
No 26 due in 3 mins
waited...
went back to
4 mins...
waited
then
4 mins...
waited
then went back to
3 mins
still no bus
...
after another 10mins he text'd me to get lift for his girlfriend
I ran them to M'burgh
We passed 2x 26 on the other side of road on way home
No wonder there's so many fiction writers based in Edinburgh if that s the standard the bus timetable runs to
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BeachBum
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by BeachBum » 28 Feb 2009, 20:03
SoupDragon wrote:Why on earth would you think the website would be reliable when the signs at the bus stop cseem to be pure fiction?
ie last night my son was at the one in the High St
No 26 due in 3 mins
waited...
went back to
4 mins...
waited
then
4 mins...
waited
then went back to
3 mins
still no bus
...
after another 10mins he text'd me to get lift for his girlfriend
I ran them to M'burgh
We passed 2x 26 on the other side of road on way home
No wonder there's so many fiction writers based in Edinburgh if that s the standard the bus timetable runs to
Ive noticed that before at bus stops on a minority of occassions. But glad ive never had that problem with buses ive been getting.
The running of the website is the responsibility of CEC. I might speak to CD on Monday see what their thoughts are. BT are running mainatance this weekend on some of the Council servers. im wondering if its linked to this website fault. However, the email sent round by BT does not state bus tracker website will be offline.
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BeachBum
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by BeachBum » 17 Apr 2009, 19:33
Turns out that the countdown on the website is 2 minutes behind.
You would think they would have that stated on the website. Or perhaps it shows what a thick (admin: deleted) I am for thinking the website countdown would match the bus stop display countdown.
