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…
Christmas at GoAhead (… again)
Reading Time: 2 minutesErrr – ummm From Newport to Ryde, the buses roll, Southern Vectis with festive soul, Through Cowes and Sandown, bright and merry, Delivering cheer on every ferry! Across the Island’s winding ways, Buses dance through Christmas days, From Ventnor’s coast…
GoAhead at Christmas (some of….)
Reading Time: 5 minutesFrom Bournemouth’s shores to Poole’s bright bay, Morebus drives the festive way, Through Ringwood, Wimborne, day by day, While Santa checks his Christmas sleigh! Bluestar glides through Southampton’s light, To Eastleigh, Romsey in the night, While Damory’s routes through Blandford…
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…
Christmas Ticket Offers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith the run up to the festive season beginning, bus operators are going to be looking to get bums on seats and revenue in boxes. So here is what should en up being a quick summary of the bus ticket…
Round Up
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo I was hoping to have a few more details for you about the outcome of the Hampshire County Council Cabinet meeting a few weeks back. The outcome of the meeting resolving about public transport financing was itself delayed by…
Gosport Bus Station is OPEN (and more)
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy the time you read this, because frankly I am doing it after the event, Gosport Bus Station is officially open and buses are now crossing the High Street and doing the new circular loop of Gosport Town Centre. I…
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,…