Reading Time: 3 minutesHello and welcome back to a late running post of things that have happened, things that are happening and many other things. I know it has been a while. The App formerly known as Twitter has now removed my access…
Category: First Hampshire & Dorset
A Tale of Two 50s?
Reading Time: 8 minutesGood morning from a train racing through the Hampshire and Dorset countryside as I spend my Saturday heading down to Bournemouth to enjoy a number of open top buses. The weather is not expected to be bad, but it is…
September Changes in Portsmouth
Reading Time: 5 minutesUpdated 22nd August to include the a Late Night diversion on Star 7 and route change on Solent Rangers. The start of the autumn school term brings a number of changes to bus services in the Portsmouth area. Both Stagecoach…
New U Links (and more)
Reading Time: 6 minutesLots of little changes are coming up in the coming months which we are quickly going to report on today. I regret that many of the bus rally organisers have really been collaborating this year and yet again I am…
Portsmouth re-tendering leaked
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo I illuded to this yesterday on Twitter, although I was not in a position to write this post. It has though, I believe, answered another question in part. Someone leaked to local paper the Portsmouth News that the re-tendering…
Roundup
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are quite a few little bits that are floating about and are not necessarily big enough for their own post. This roundup covers Eastleigh, Portsmouth and Gosport. I had planned to annoy you all while you were wandering around…
First (and Associated) Updates
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a few changes at First that have recently appeared in the Traffic Commissioners registration lists. We also have new news from the very south coast from next month. In Portsmouth, First Solent have a small number of changes…
A General Roundup
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are lots of little things that are going on at the moment. If things were delivered in nice neat little parcels then some of them could have been whole posts in their own right, but I am not convinced…
Changes and Concerns at First Wessex
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you know, I try really hard not to push much of an opinion when I am talking about service changes. Having started to see the timetable changes at First Wessex, and having seen some of the complaints of their…
Easter Service Levels
Reading Time: 2 minutesI would love to be able to tell you that every operator is doing the same thing on the same day over Easter this year; but not even brands within a single operator are all doing the same thing for…