A Trip to Bournemouth

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith a new open top bus operator and a new summer timetable for the incumbent; who could turn do a day at the seaside? It’s turns about just about no-one. The school day start time, on the first weekend of…

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More Colour to Tipner Park & Ride

Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdated: At least we now have a timetable. First departure from Tipner is 0935, then every 30 minutes until 1935; returning from Southsea D Day Story museum 1005 until 2005. Unfortunately, even though the service is only weekends until 22nd…

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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…

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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…

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Timetable Changes at morebus

Reading Time: 3 minutesI remember back last year when Yellow Buses collapsed in the summer, when the more enthusiastic members of the transport community were screaming from the rooftops about how to recast the Bournemouth and Poole service monopoly. In between the calls…

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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…

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Two Weeks of Updates

Reading Time: 4 minutesRegretfully, I have been deeply, deeply involved in the foundations of a completely different website recently, so I have not been keeping up with posts as much as I would have liked. I know, I built this up during the…

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First Portsmouth services from April

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe have been waiting, after First Solent posted their service cancellations for three important local links in the Portsmouth area. As I said from the very beginning, I anticipated that this was because of the larger review into service tenders…

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Go Ahead Changes in April

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith Easter approaching, Go South Coast have announced some of their summer service uplift. There are also changes in some parts as the Hampshire County Council funding cuts and bus tenders take effect in Romsey. All of the changes on…

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Stagecoach changes in April

Reading Time: 4 minutesTimetables have now been included for services in Basingstoke & Coastliner 700 With the latest round of Hampshire County Council re-tendering, we have already heard that companies have pre-emptively registered cancellations for supported services. Stagecoach South however have started to…

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