Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the enforced Christmas holiday we hope to see the last few days of busy buses and people taking advantage of the £2 bus fare cap. The service levels that are out and about Hampshire and Dorset vary, so hopefully…
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Bus Times: Boxing Day 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutesI hope you all had a great Christmas Day. I hear from the comment on the Christmas Day post that services in the Southampton area were well patronaged at lunchtime, however I was not near a Christmas Day bus route…
Bus Times: Christmas Day 2024
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…
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…
Stagecoach Christmas Timetables
Reading Time: 6 minutesif its not AI generated pictures that you enjoy, I asked Claude for a witty ditty: Through Chichester, Portsmouth, and old Hampshire’s bounds,Stagecoach South’s engines make their faithful rounds.While Santa soars high with his reindeer above,Our buses below spread their…
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…
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.…
Stagecoach Changes in September
Reading Time: 4 minutesI was – over the course of a week – writing this nice short piece of the things that had happened over the last few weeks. It has been a long few weeks and I thought this would be a…
A Stagecoach Middle of the Month Roundup
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt time for one of those collect all my thoughts on one page roundup sort of posts. I have also not been able to get out and about as much as I would have liked; planned trips to Bournemouth and…
Upcoming Service Changes
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a number of service updates that have recently appeared on dispatches and are scattered around the region and companies. So it’s time for one of those cheating posts rounding them all-up in one hit. Xelabus Alongside their regular…