[crossposted - for utb readers, this is about Edinburgh]

LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
Chambers Street.  The nearest to home I could have got was via
the LRT no. 49 which goes through Dalkeith, so the problem
must have been further out.  A serious attack on a bus around
Easthouses, maybe?

How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
in the foreseeable future?".  Anybody here got the direct line
numbers for the LRT garages?

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>>Chambers Street.

>Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

They did just that; in consequence of the altered route I was taken
almost to the door of the address I was visiting.
Ill wind etc.

My Conspiracy Hypothesist tendencies have me wondering if it was
actually some sort of security scare, rather than someone threatening
to jump off the bridge.

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
TiltNot@Nonetel.com                                               @ O n e t e l
                                                                    . c o m

In article , spam-no-
spam@Onetel.net.uk.invalid says...
> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> 
> >>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
> >>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
> >>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
> >>Chambers Street.
> 
> >Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> >further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> 
> They did just that; in consequence of the altered route I was taken
> almost to the door of the address I was visiting.
> Ill wind etc.
> 
> My Conspiracy Hypothesist tendencies have me wondering if it was
> actually some sort of security scare, rather than someone threatening
> to jump off the bridge.
> 
> 

Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
frighten the masses.

"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

-- 
Halmyre

In article ,
Jack Campin - bogus address   wrote:

>LRT stopped the no.3 service to Gorebridge without warning last
>night.  Other LRT buses were running, and First seemed to be
>operating a reduced 86 service (mostly the same route).  I was
>waiting at Surgeon's Hall - the BusTracker display kept saying
>a no. 3 was on its way, but when the arrival time came round the
>entry just vanished.  (The display can say "service terminated"
>but presumably whoever operates the displays had gone home).

>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>Chambers Street.

Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

Yesterday was the second time in three days that the buses were
diverted because of someone on the Bridges.  Anyone know if it was the
same person?

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
bogus address  wrote this:-

>How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>in the foreseeable future?".

Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

David Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:09:34 +0100 someone who may be Jack Campin -
> bogus address  wrote this:-
> 
>> How do you get answers about something like this?  I could have
>> been stuck in town all night.  There seems to be no number to
>> call to ask "why is this service off and is it going to restart
>> in the foreseeable future?".
> 
> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
> 
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml
> 
> 

I know Arriva are strictly 9-5

On 8 Jun, 13:09, David Hansen  wrote:

> Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?
>
> http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/contact_detail.shtml

When I've called it in the evenings always had someone answer it
(eventually) and answer any queries I've had.

On 8 Jun, 12:34, rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
>

Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street, but
most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

: Does 555 6363 not operate 24 hours a day?

Not last night it didn't.


>> Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>> further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> Some buses were dirverting and rejoining route at Chambers Street,
> but most I think were going up Lothian Road and along the Meadows.

That's what they *said* they were doing when we phoned today - but
I ended up getting a FirstBus 86, which follows mostly the same
route, and no LRT bus passed us going the other way; ordinarily
you'd pass two or three.  (And since the 86 follows *exactly* the
same route from Haymarket to where I was waiting, how come they
found their way to my stop when LRT couldn't?  It can't have been
a routing decision by the police).

They must have figured nobody could get on (most people going out
to Midlothian board at the stops they were bypassing) so they just
scratched the whole service for a few hours.

I suspect some badly drafted standing orders were misapplied by
a rather thick controller working alone on the backshift.

It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
up with their phone number.

==============  j-c  ======  @  ======  purr . demon . co . uk  ==============
Jack Campin:  11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>   for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
>>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
>>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
>>Chambers Street.

>Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
>further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?

They did just that; in consequence of the altered route I was taken
almost to the door of the address I was visiting.
Ill wind etc.

My Conspiracy Hypothesist tendencies have me wondering if it was
actually some sort of security scare, rather than someone threatening
to jump off the bridge.

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
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                                                                    . c o m

In article , spam-no-
spam@Onetel.net.uk.invalid says...
> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> 
> >>There was somebody threatening to jump off the North Bridge at
> >>the time, so it was closed by the police, but plenty of other
> >>services that use the bridge went by after rerouting along
> >>Chambers Street.
> 
> >Are you sure they hadn't just diverted some of the routes to rejoin
> >further south, e.g. at Melville Drive?
> 
> They did just that; in consequence of the altered route I was taken
> almost to the door of the address I was visiting.
> Ill wind etc.
> 
> My Conspiracy Hypothesist tendencies have me wondering if it was
> actually some sort of security scare, rather than someone threatening
> to jump off the bridge.
> 
> 

Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
frighten the masses.

"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

-- 
Halmyre

Halmyre <nospam@this.address> writes:

>Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
>Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
>frighten the masses.
>"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

And then the SNP would have to claim that it was in fact someone
trying to jump off the bridge!

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
TiltNot@Nonetel.com                                               @ O n e t e l
                                                                    . c o m

Halmyre <nospam@this.address> writes:

>Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
>Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
>frighten the masses.
>"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

And then the SNP would have to claim that it was in fact someone
trying to jump off the bridge!

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
TiltNot@Nonetel.com                                               @ O n e t e l
                                                                    . c o m

Halmyre <nospam@this.address> writes:

>Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
>Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
>frighten the masses.
>"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

And then the SNP would have to claim that it was in fact someone
trying to jump off the bridge!

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
TiltNot@Nonetel.com                                               @ O n e t e l
                                                                    . c o m

> It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
> by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
> Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
> up with their phone number.

It seems there's now an organisation to help with that sort of thing:
http://www.yspp.org/training/asist.htm

They've strangely adopted the acronym of ASIST, however. Now that must
be confusing.

TTH

the_tattie_howker the Monkey was never naughty:
>
>> It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
>> by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
>> Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
>> up with their phone number.
>
> It seems there's now an organisation to help with that sort of thing:
> http://www.yspp.org/training/asist.htm
>
> They've strangely adopted the acronym of ASIST, however. Now that must
> be confusing.

Maybe they just want to lend a helping hand.

Choobs

-- 
Sir Chewbury Gubbins 
http://www.nelefa.org
http://www.nelefa.org/spofnod/
Abu the Monkey was never naughty.

Halmyre <nospam@this.address> writes:

>Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
>Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
>frighten the masses.
>"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

And then the SNP would have to claim that it was in fact someone
trying to jump off the bridge!

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
TiltNot@Nonetel.com                                               @ O n e t e l
                                                                    . c o m

> It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
> by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
> Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
> up with their phone number.

It seems there's now an organisation to help with that sort of thing:
http://www.yspp.org/training/asist.htm

They've strangely adopted the acronym of ASIST, however. Now that must
be confusing.

TTH

the_tattie_howker the Monkey was never naughty:
>
>> It seems somebody earlier this week got the North Bridge closed
>> by threatening to heave his *dog* over the parapet.  I doubt the
>> Samaritans could have anticipated that when putting those plaques
>> up with their phone number.
>
> It seems there's now an organisation to help with that sort of thing:
> http://www.yspp.org/training/asist.htm
>
> They've strangely adopted the acronym of ASIST, however. Now that must
> be confusing.

Maybe they just want to lend a helping hand.

Choobs

-- 
Sir Chewbury Gubbins 
http://www.nelefa.org
http://www.nelefa.org/spofnod/
Abu the Monkey was never naughty.

Halmyre <nospam@this.address> writes:

>Huh. A real Conspiracy Hypothesist would offer the opinion that the UK 
>Government would be all too happy to talk up a security scare and 
>frighten the masses.
>"Look, this is what happens when the SNP gets into power!"

And then the SNP would have to claim that it was in fact someone
trying to jump off the bridge!

-- 
Windmill,                                                Really t m i l l
TiltNot@Nonetel.com                                               @ O n e t e l
                                                                    . c o m