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Post by trent on Jan 6, 2012 18:09:03 GMT
These videos certainly brought back some memories of what Waingate in Sheffield City Centre used to be like in the late 80s/early 90s. Used to be deadly trying to cross the road back then, nowadays there is a much reduced service in operation...
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Post by madannie77 on Jan 6, 2012 19:03:35 GMT
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53brown
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Post by 53brown on Jan 7, 2012 1:19:18 GMT
Agh, the good old days. Remember it well. This was also the time when bus fares were dirt cheap, that you could purchase two weekly tickets for either Mainline or Andrews. Takes me back!
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Post by northern on Jan 8, 2012 19:36:18 GMT
The days of Waingate and Haymarket been a death trap. Doesn't High Street look odd without the tram tracks in place!
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Post by The Captain on Jan 8, 2012 19:40:36 GMT
The days of Waingate and Haymarket been a death trap. Doesn't High Street look odd without the tram tracks in place! I agree. Not a week went by without a Pedestrian RTA or bus on bus scrape. Remember Andrews "No time to die" running an old Gent over at the top of Waingate?. Note the then famous Terrier stop blocking going on. |
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Post by mainline on Jan 10, 2012 17:29:40 GMT
The days of Waingate and Haymarket been a death trap. Doesn't High Street look odd without the tram tracks in place! Most people had their wits about them back then though, not just walking into the path of a double decker without looking! Nice videos by the way!  |
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Post by kaylib98 on Jan 19, 2012 19:01:21 GMT
Not much has changed if you ask me still crammed with buses, and still people taking life into there own hands trying to get across the road.
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Post by citibus on Jan 20, 2012 16:56:49 GMT
Now those were the proper days of bus wars in South Yorkshire.....
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Post by tox0114 on Jan 23, 2012 18:21:05 GMT
Great videos, certainly takes me back. Cheers for sharing those.
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Post by mainline on Jan 26, 2012 18:17:18 GMT
Now those were the proper days of bus wars in South Yorkshire..... These were nothing really. Anyone remember the situation in Manchester when privatisation came in and GM Buses refused to sell - hence the government forcing them to sell and splitting up the operation in the process? There were over 70 competing bus companies at one point across Manchester and this was by far. Now that was real competition. Sheffield and South Yorkshire were minute in comparison. There are areas where deregulation did work though, such as Oxford between Oxford Bus Company and Thames Transit. |
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Post by 60406 on Jan 27, 2012 13:16:11 GMT
Now those were the proper days of bus wars in South Yorkshire..... These were nothing really. Anyone remember the situation in Manchester when privatisation came in and GM Buses refused to sell - hence the government forcing them to sell and splitting up the operation in the process? There were over 70 competing bus companies at one point across Manchester and this was by far. Now that was real competition. Sheffield and South Yorkshire were minute in comparison. There are areas where deregulation did work though, such as Oxford between Oxford Bus Company and Thames Transit. Was that just Manchester, or Greater Manchester.? 70 seems quite a large number.! |
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Post by bususer on Mar 20, 2017 17:03:44 GMT
SYT appeared to have a bit of an attitude problem with competition back in the day. I guess because they had the market to themselves for so long prior to Oct 1986 they resented loosing even a bit of market share and thought every customer was theirs by right rather than have to compete for customers like most companies do in other markets.
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Post by duncan on Mar 20, 2017 19:01:15 GMT
SYT appeared to have a bit of an attitude problem with competition back in the day. I guess because they had the market to themselves for so long prior to Oct 1986 they resented loosing even a bit of market share and thought every customer was theirs by right rather than have to compete for customers like most companies do in other markets. Yes, like any other business they should have just rolled over and allowed their competitors to take their business away. A well proven business model. NOT |
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Post by The Captain on Mar 20, 2017 19:57:27 GMT
Then again if they had listened to the management at their most profitable depot and kept them in employment and not shut the depot then they would not have two more operators biting into its empire.
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Post by xtopher on Mar 20, 2017 21:55:57 GMT
SYT appeared to have a bit of an attitude problem with competition back in the day. I guess because they had the market to themselves for so long prior to Oct 1986 they resented loosing even a bit of market share and thought every customer was theirs by right rather than have to compete for customers like most companies do in other markets. Yes, like any other business they should have just rolled over and allowed their competitors to take their business away. A well proven business model. NOT That's the job of SYPTE with their "Partnerships" isn't it?! |
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