Reading Time: < 1 minuteBus driver shortages are still a thing. Locally, it appears that we have an average 3 or 4 driver duties a day that are uncovered – not being a bus driver I base this on the number of buses cancelled.…
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Update of the Fortnight
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt has been a weird few weeks hasn’t it? Well for me it has, and I have not really been with things as I work hard on the daytime thing and it has meant I have done none of the…
Southampton Mini Link takeover Dekkabus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt certainly is a turbulent time in the micro independent bus market as recently opened Southampton Mini Link has announced it’s first takeover of another, more established operator. Poole based Dekkabus Ltd which mainly operated private hire, schools and rail…
Service Changes – 26 September
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are still a lot of service changes that are taking place due to the national shortage of bus drivers. It is definitely not our place to argue why, it is not this place to start speculating and laying accusations…
Service Changes at First – This Weekend
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe nationwide driver shortage is starting to crunch into the service resilience. I see every day, that bus services are cancelled either at the start of the day, or mid-shift when pingdemic passengers pick a pot of something… [Look –…
Go-Ahead Changes – 5th September
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSchools Back for Autumn. That means that there are a number of changes to Bluestar & morebus coming up to help them better reallocate buses and drivers to schools and the peak times. Unfortunately, as you sometimes get with bus…
Yellow Buses Changes – September 5th
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the schools going back imminently, most bus operators are tweaking their networks to best fulfil their schools obligations. Yellow buses are also introducing new express services as well as extending some others beyond the end of their season. In…
New School Term – New First Timetables
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the new school term approaching, First Bus has started to announce it’s service changes taking effect from 5th September. Portsmouth In the Portsea Island area, the combined service 1 and service 3 routes will increase to a 10 minute…
Changes at Stagecoach – New School Term
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the schools heading back to isolation in September, bus operators are starting to publish details of their new school services. This also means though that other timetables will change around them, and the current COVID rules mean that actually,…
Xelabus Contract Wins
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the last week it was announced that Xelabus has been awarded a number of new contracts for the school season as well as taking on sub-contracts in other parts of the South. Firstly in the shorter term contracts; Xelabus…