Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are once again at that time of year where the younger children are disappointed at not seeing the big buy, older children are disappointed at how diluted their Christmas breakfast Bucks Fizz is and the turkey may, or may…
Category: First Hampshire & Dorset
Bus Times: Christmas Eve 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to your quick check round-up of services on Christmas Eve 2024. this year, I am publishing in the evening before because for a change I have managed to draft the pages in advance…. well this one anyway. Did you…
Industrial Action at First Solent
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdated 18 December Ahead of the first strike action scheduled by First Solent tomorrow, the timetables and hoped service levels have appeared. If I am honest, I am surprised that there are as many buses planned to run on Hoeford…
Christmas Services at First
Reading Time: 5 minutesSolent’s misty shores Wessex hills draped white with frost Buses wind their way Through Portsmouth, Gosport’s bright streets Festive lights gleam on windows Welcome from another AI generated festive ditty and this time it should be clear, that it is…
Alternatives to the Bus Fare Cap
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Government recently announced in the autumn budget that the £2 bus fare cap, which is expiring on 31st December, will be replaced with a £3 bus fare cap for 2025. A total of £151 million is being committed to…
Changes in Bournemouth and Weymouth
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere have been a number of updates ongoing while I had to take a short break. Thank you to the many of you that have been sending me information over the last few weeks and I have been reading them,…
Bits and Pieces
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe featured image at the top of the post was something that I forwarded on Twitter and Facebook recently, which may indicate that I have been out of the country. It’s green though, and I will talk green very shortly.…
A July Roundup (in August)
Reading Time: 2 minutesI know, I know, I have been neglecting you recently and you have been getting your information from elsewhere. You know when you have so little time and so many things to do? Well I never made it to the…
The Not Stagecoach Roundup
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis update covers several transportation news bits. Xelabus Park and Ride for Southsea resumes for the summer, details on its schedule and special event adjustments are provided. Go South Coast reports changes like the Boscombe Beach Bus route adjustment and New Forest Tour restarting. First Solent cancels extensions to Botley on service 28 due to low usage and adjusts stop timings. South West Coaches reintroduces its Haven Holiday Park service for the summer season.
Solent Ranger Changes
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo a little earlier than I was expecting, by about a week, First Solent timetables for the X4 and X5 Solent Ranger services have been released. As a bit of caution though, if you go looking on TravelineSW there is…