点评:The bus services are in essence very good with frequent departures, late evening and night services and modern vehicles, but the timetable is terrible, the worst I’ve ever come across in 40 years of extensive travelling on public transport in the UK. It’s really difficult even for an experienced traveller to follow. The buses do appear on bustimes.org but for some reason not on Google Maps journey planner and there’s no Bus Vannin planner either.
There is a confusing array of different numbered buses that make up any one service on key routes and these are all detailed in different timetables. Each timetable is in itself littered with “not schooldays” and suchlike with all the different days of the week mix muddled up too.
The “bus station” in Douglas is frankly an embarrassment as there’s just some rusty shelters on Lord Street with no live information. Most stops do have a shelter and sign, and they do at least have written timetables in most shelters, which is a plus.
翻译:总体而言,这些公交服务相当不错:发车频率高,还有深夜及夜间班次,车辆也很现代化。不过公交时刻表却糟糕透顶,是我40年来在英国乘坐公共交通工具时所见过最差的时刻表。即便对于经验丰富的旅行者来说,要弄懂这个时刻表也相当困难。这些巴士的信息确实出现在bustimes.org上,但不知为何却未出现在谷歌地图的路线规划器中,而且也没有专门的Bus Vannin规划工具。在主要线路上,构成同一条公交线路的车辆编号繁杂得令人困惑,这些信息都分别记载在不同的时刻表中。每份时刻表里都充斥着“非上学日”之类的标注,而且一周中各个日期也被混在一起。
道格拉斯的“公交站”实在让人尴尬——朗德街上只有一些生锈的候车棚,根本没有实时信息显示。不过大多数公交站还是配有候车棚和指示牌的。至少大多数收容所都有书面的时间表,这一点算是优点吧。