First Staffs operating services
I write today in praise of bus drivers, and in this case those that work for First Staffs.
They are providing services where they can in extreme conditions.
Sadly this isn’t being helped in some cases by the Stoke-on-Trent City Councils cut backs, in relation to gritting.
I myself have just travelled on a service 23 from Longton to Blurton, via Newstead.
Although Carlisle Street in Dresden was impassable and a steep hill it had to be missed out.
My main concern was that a large mainly Council Estate like Newstead had not been cleared. This is a main bus route between Hanley and Longton and in saying that this is the only bus service they have.
Praise therefore has to go to the driver who managed to get his vehicle around the estate via a revised route.
The Estate has often been described as the forgotten Estate, and in this case it seems it is very true, Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Highways Team of Gritters need to be given permission to grit the estate.
Let’s for the sake of its residents hope they do, especially with more snow forcast for tomorrow.
Its not often our bus operators get praise but this time they do, because they could miss the estate out like they have had to with Carlisle Street.
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