u/peadar87 — reddlx

Flixbus

I've booked intercity buses with Flix twice. Both times the bus just hasn't turned up at Buchanan. No announcements or explanation, just a no show with the bus disappearing off the departures board.

Ordinarily I'd think it was me being stupid and going to the wrong stance or something, but both times there have been other folk waiting for the same bus.

Am I uniquely unlucky, or are Flix genuinely just providing this shit of a service?

Edit: Update, waiting on the return leg of my trip now. 20 minutes overdue. No update from Flix. Currently crafting a complaint email so savage that the Scottish franchise hopefully gets taken off of McGill's immediately.

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u/peadar87 — 5 days ago

▲ 133 r/Thunderbirds

To share with u/frakkintoaster7

Basically just moved the engines to somewhere that made more sense for balancing mass, thrust and drag. and as a bonus it puts them further away from the pilots, so all that sweet, nourishing radiation can be saved for paying passengers.

u/peadar87 — 8 days ago

▲ 41 r/glasgow

So this started off as an idle sketch when I had a few minutes free at work, and kind of grew legs. I thought the group might be interested to see and critique.

The basic concept is a ring-radial network, using existing lines as much as possible, and trying to make it reasonably easy to travel around the city without having to go into the city centre and back out again.

Unrealistic and expensive, I'm sure, but it was a fun thought experiment. And I'm sorry if it would mean bulldozing your house.

I tried to split the project into three main phases:

Phase 1: Rearrangement of current services so you have some circumferential services (Yellow Middle Orbital Line, Teal Outer Orbital Line) and upgrade some stations to allow them to be used as interchanges in the future (Shields Road, Duke Street, Jordanhill, Springburn, Cardonald), but no major construction works.

Phase 2: Construction of new links to allow a full circular middle orbital (New Clyde crossing from Garscadden to Braehead, Link from Dalmarnock to Duke Street via Parkhead, Reopen Paisley Canal to Elderslie, Build a spur from the Greenock line to the airport, connect Barrhead to Hawkhead to help circumferential movement in the south-west)

Phase 3:
Extra links so the Middle Orbital doesn't have to share with radial services (Cardonald to Shawlands via Bellahouston, Rutherglen to Burnside to clear up the West Coast Main Line).
Put in tram links to fill in gaps in the radial network (Maryhill tram using the old line under Kelvingrove and through the Botanics, Airport tram via Renfrew, Cathkin tram via Polmadie)

Edit: reddit seems to have reduced the quality of the image, if you want to see the zoomable, scrollable version, it's here: https://tennessine.co.uk/metro/abe3d06bf40ce00

u/peadar87 — 15 days ago