New bus service from Winners, Wokkers, Brackers

[cheeryoleary]

Can't find anything on the OS. Spotted something in the programme yesterday. Anyone got the scoop?

Beats catching the train, then having to mess around with the 79 bus.

Cheers then

[Forbury Lion]

Speaking of buses, It was good to see the 72A actually turn up with 72A on the front and not 72 as was the case last time, It got confusing as the 72 has 720 on the front which is what the 72A used to have as the older buses only have numbers.

Also, thumbs up to the driver for sounding the horn and then sending a runner into the Maidens Pub to call out the regulars who hadn't seen the bus arrive on time for a change. Plenty of undrunk pints left on the bar though.

[M Brook]

Can't find anything on the OS. Spotted something in the programme yesterday. Anyone got the scoop?

Beats catching the train, then having to mess around with the 79 bus.

Cheers then

If I recall, the article in the programme was about new match day bus services from Winners, 'Nell, 'Nham, and Yatters. £5 return for grown ups.

Sounds like good news.

[biscuitsrus]

Can't find anything on the OS. Spotted something in the programme yesterday. Anyone got the scoop?

Beats catching the train, then having to mess around with the 79 bus.

Cheers then

If I recall, the article in the programme was about new match day bus services from Winners, 'Nell, 'Nham, and Yatters. £5 return for grown ups.

Sounds like good news.

I do not have a programme. Any details available

[Platypuss]

Can't find anything on the OS. Spotted something in the programme yesterday. Anyone got the scoop?

Beats catching the train, then having to mess around with the 79 bus.

Cheers then

If I recall, the article in the programme was about new match day bus services from Winners, 'Nell, 'Nham, and Yatters. £5 return for grown ups.

Sounds like good news.

I do not have a programme. Any details available

Details now on OS:

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10306~957507,00.html

[Barry the bird boggler]

Remember, use them or lose them......

[Huntley & Palmer]

The one outside the Rifle could be handy for if I'm in Wokkers of a match day. Just shows how much Reading Buses rip you off from the station in Reading to the ground though

[amdocsroyal]

The one outside the Rifle could be handy for if I'm in Wokkers of a match day. Just shows how much Reading Buses rip you off from the station in Reading to the ground though

Yep Rifle stop for me too.

Wonder where they will depart from for the return journey?

[premiership_bound]

How come it is the same price for a return ticket from Basingstoke as it is Lower Earley?

[Huntley & Palmer]

The one outside the Rifle could be handy for if I'm in Wokkers of a match day. Just shows how much Reading Buses rip you off from the station in Reading to the ground though

Yep Rifle stop for me too.

Wonder where they will depart from for the return journey?

Outside the East Stand I would imagine

[cheeryoleary]

The one outside the Rifle could be handy for if I'm in Wokkers of a match day. Just shows how much Reading Buses rip you off from the station in Reading to the ground though

Yep Rifle stop for me too.

Wonder where they will depart from for the return journey?

Can you ask the landlord of the Rifle to phone the landlord of the Pheasant and tell him that the bus is on its way and therefore drinky up time?

[Huntley & Palmer]

if you drink in the Pheasant, then you deserve to miss the bus in the first place.

[Yorkshire Royal]

I lived in Winnersh for over 15 years.. I drank in the pheasant once.

[Rhys The Royal]

How many buses will run on each route though? It sounds like only one and that would be pretty full.

[The 17 Bus]

How many buses will run on each route though? It sounds like only one and that would be pretty full.

It wont be full of pretties if H&P is on board.

[savage 4 england]

Bus stop is opposite my house.

[Huntley & Palmer]

So you work in that hand car wash then?

[biscuitman]

How come it is the same price for a return ticket from Basingstoke as it is Lower Earley?

Good bloody question!

This reason why Reading Buses put the fares up last year was because the fuel prices went up and now there charging the same from a suburb of Reading as to a shithole in a different county! Work that one out!

[The 17 Bus]

How come it is the same price for a return ticket from Basingstoke as it is Lower Earley?

Good bloody question!

This reason why Reading Buses put the fares up last year was because the fuel prices went up and now there charging the same from a suburb of Reading as to a shithole in a different county! Work that one out!

The answer will be that the cost of the run is very similar, possibly an hour extra for the driver, and a couple of gallons of diesel.

Reading Buses are a profit making company, same as Horseman, difference is that any profit goes to the Council. £250-000 last year I think I read somewhere.

The costings will have been worked out using full rates not as an additional income that can be sold cheap.

[cheeryoleary]

How many buses will run on each route though? It sounds like only one and that would be pretty full.

I'm worried about this too.... Also, how do I identify the bus (number?).