Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing on to changes in Southampton on Monday, First Hampshire also have changes to their services in Portsmouth from Monday 24th January. These are services that are all in the Portsmouth City area, so there are no changes to the…
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City Red reductions Monday
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was debating, I was planning, I wanted to write a piece about some of the good and bad parts of our local bus companies updating their COVID service. I had been inspired about posting on this excellent post by…
CityRed 11 Extended
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst Southampton have announced that from Sunday 24th January, they will be extending the CityRed 11 service to the north side of Southampton Central Station. This was originally planned to run from this weekend, but for some reason was delayed…
School Holidays Begin at Bluestar & more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile all the schools are closed, and teachers starting to say school won’t re-open until all the teachers are vaccinated it seems that most school services are starting to slow down or stop. GoAhead companies are starting to announce that…
Free Travel to Vaccination Clinics
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you had a fleet of vehicles, sat idle because of a lack of customers, you would probably be busy counting the savings in petrol, wear and tear, and trying to work out how to SORN them. Over at Xelabus…
Xelabus Changes Today
Reading Time: 3 minutesXelabus confirmed over Christmas that when the schools went back last week – okay, when schools did a day in school last week – that they would not be returning to anything near a normal service. When the new national…
Stagecoach Changes from Sunday 10th January
Reading Time: 2 minutesGuess what! Home School is In! Following the national lockdown and the closure of schools for the foreseeable, this blogger is now back on half-furlough, half homeschool-ing and that means 7am to 7pm is school time. As a result of…
Improvements to Bluestar Tomorrow
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBluestar announced, last week (I know – I missed it – too much Eggnog) that there are service improvements starting tomorrow. Service 16 will see a new 10 minute frequency Monday to Friday Peak hours roughly 0700 to 0830 into…
Changes at Stagecoach – 04 January to 09 January
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the last few days, Stagecoach have confirmed their service changes in light of both the schools being open (or closed) and the fact that everyone in the South remains in Tier 4. The weekday guide should only be assumed…
You Must Stay At Home
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou know. You have read this blog since September and you have heard me telling you to “Eat out to Help Out.” You have heard that some of the local bus companies have offered special tickets to help you to…