Learning Bus Routes.

[@darraghnee]

Thanks again Mike for your information.. Darragh from Galway Ireland 🇮🇪

[@hi-tech55]

Nice one Mike. I can relate to everything you have said about ROUTE LEARNING

[@M1keWrites]

Thanks Jerry

[@stuartbusdriver2038]

Morning Mike again outstanding video. We have driving instructors who take new drivers out on our training buses to learn all routes and also do the ticket machine training at the same time. After two weeks with an instructor then you have a week with a mentor in service then you are on your own. Route Learning...

[@M1keWrites]

That’s a great way to learn.

[@nishafuture7429]

Hello friend sending my full support new friend thanks stay connect

[@Bruce-h8w]

Ah, the 314! A ridiculously long route. More sensible would be Eltham-Bromley, like the 126. But after that, you trek out to Addington, and then have to add the loop around the estate. TFL planning gone mad!

[@M1keWrites]

I didn’t it too much.

[@TheTransportHub17]

Great video Mike. I know most of my local routes as I’ve travelled on them for years. But it’s good you go over the route in the cab when you haven’t driven a route before or for a while as well as do the standard thing of going in someone’s bus. Route learning.

[@M1keWrites]

Thanks Jack

[@dbvegan2840]

Route learn. Cheers Mike, starting route learning again next week in Stoke, will take your advice on board.

[@whengda4822]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this.More blessings to come.Stay healthy.Greetings from Japan.

[@M1keWrites]

Thank you for taking the time to watch, my videos.

[@nurseberta]

Interesting Mike, I suppose the more routes you learn at your garage the more flexible you are? I think I'd enjoy knowing a few routes rather than just the one. Route learning 😀

[@ChrisJohnson-qk9ci]

route learn i know most bus drivers do all the routes from there yard i know most of bus routes where i live and shortcuts too glad most bus routes are easy to learn

[@M1keWrites]

Not everyone can get it easily. The 336 at my garage is different coming back , to what it was going. Can’t get my head round it.

[@leejones5849]

Route learning. Thank you for that video Mike really enjoyed it.👍

[@M1keWrites]

Thanks Lee. Thanks for taking the time to watch.

[@rossmcgarrie9787]

Very interesting video to watch Mike. Nice one Pal. 👍

[@M1keWrites]

Thanks Ross

[@Darren.79]

Thanks for the video. Next week I have to learn 24 routes in 8 days.

[@M1keWrites]

That’s mad. My depot only has seven routes. Good Luck.

[@melgendemaisonvlog3428]

Nice video,route learning is very important when travelling,very useful,fully support here❤️🙏♥️keep safe

[@M1keWrites]

Thank for watching, Melgen.

[@melgendemaisonvlog3428]

@@M1keWrites welcome Idol🙏 fully support here always stay connected and stay safe♥️🙏❤️

[@jasonmallindine644]

Enjoyed the video, they have been super useful. I have just been offered a trainee driver role at one of the local garages in Southend. Looking forward to the route learning.

[@M1keWrites]

That’s Brilliant glad I could help.

[@splashotb]

Bit late but just for anyone in future Wanderizm is an amazing channel has a ton of routes all over London in high quality so can be helpful for learning

[@320tobigginhillvalley5]

Route Learning In Addington Village Interchange, do you serve that drop off point as you turn in the Interchange both ways??

[@M1keWrites]

No. As we leave the stand, the first stop is just across the road in Parkway. Next stop is in Gasgcoine road.

[@melgendemaisonvlog3428]

Watching.....

[@mborpingtonfines9969]

Route Learning Where would you park up your bus if you were to be curtailed at Hayes Station and where you have to turn to get back on your normal LoR?🤔

[@M1keWrites]

You can use Tiepigs lane or ridgeway to loop round to station approach

[@mborpingtonfines9969]

@@M1keWrites are they tight roads?

[@M1keWrites]

@@mborpingtonfines9969 not to bad, there’s tighter roads on route.

[@greigs9384]

What’s the route from Manor House to say ….. Gibson Square? 😎

[@garethcharman7702]

Route Learning Is there anymore routes you would like to learn?

[@M1keWrites]

Not in my garage. I’d like to do the 47 out of Catford and the 53 out of plumstead but that’s about all.

[@Ryanp194]

Next time your on an empty late turn Mike can we have a party for the subscribers🥳

[@M1keWrites]

I’d say yes, but my boss might say no.

[@TheTransportHub17]

@@M1keWrites not enough room for 703 nerds 😂😂

[@sgtmajorpatrickharper7728]

Route Leaning! This has always been the most intimidating aspect for me, to learn all the route, stops, curtailment points, let alone drive them. We all know that if you'd been asked to do the 261, you wouldn't need to refresh it - I'd go as far as to say that the 261 still haunts you in your nightmares Mike hahah. Keep it up!

[@M1keWrites]

Thanks Tom. How did it go today??

[@sgtmajorpatrickharper7728]

@@M1keWrites I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!! Thanks for remembering. I've felt my mood improve a great deal hahah. Catching up on the missed videos now!

[@ewan8647]

314 is my local route!

[@M1keWrites]

Cool

[@GuyArab]

Well I thought I’d seen most of your output, but missed this really interesting video on route learning. Who at the garage chooses a new driver’s route(s)?

[@M1keWrites]

Probably the garage manager

[@Cornishboy23]

Thanks for the info, it’s a industry I’m seriously thinking of getting into

[@M1keWrites]

What are you doing for work now??

[@Cornishboy23]

@@M1keWrites On the railways but quite fancy a change

[@M1keWrites]

@@Cornishboy23 I’ll swap you.

[@Cornishboy23]

@@M1keWrites It used to be a good job but unfortunately it’s not anymore

[@russflyin]

surly there could be a system like GPS to give you the route? my dyslexia would cause a problem here i would actually think about applying

[@M1keWrites]

I route learned my way. Not the way the bus garages do it. There you sit on a bus in service , watch and remember

[@russflyin]

@@M1keWrites how dose the garage ask you to learn a route? i'm thinking of joining but i'm worried my dyslexia will get in the way learning them

[@M1keWrites]

@russflyin they get you to sit on a bus in service and watch the route. Or you’ll go out with a driver, he will do a couple of trips, then you might do a couple under his/her instruction.

[@lawrencediangana]

Nice Video Mike :)

[@M1keWrites]

Thanks Lawerence

[@lawrencediangana]

@@M1keWrites You Welcome as Always :)

[@MrPDoff]

I would love to do the 119, 146 and 138 Routes

[@M1keWrites]

The 146 is tight in places, so I’ve been told. The 138 is a pointless route, it’s short and three other bus routes go that way. I only know the beginning of the 119 once it goes up corkscrew hill you’re on your own.

[@stevendavid1330]

Route learn ... then your first day is nothing but diversions lol

[@M1keWrites]

Nightmare. Lol

[@stephenatkin4367]

What do you think of bus driver wages

[@M1keWrites]

They don’t get paid half as much as they should.

[@amandeepkaur-vg6yv]

Bus drivers can choose one route?

[@M1keWrites]

No, they have to learn a lot, however my garage made you drive just one route, unless you were on the spare rota. Where you drive a number of routes.

[@amandeepkaur-vg6yv]

@@M1keWrites thanks for reply 🥰

[@Ryanp194]

1st

[@M1keWrites]

You’re on fire 🔥

[@aboahmad9717]

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[@aboahmad9717]

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[@M1keWrites]

Thanks for your comment, but I can’t translate it.