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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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.…

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morebus changes in May

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlong with everyone else, Go South Coast are using May 2024 to start their summer bus service uplift across Hampshire and Dorset. The Breezers are continuing to Breeze and the lids are coming off the convertible open tops, so lets…

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The Jurassic Coast murmurs….

Reading Time: 2 minutes…. rolls over and complains that it is too early. The morebus Breezers are starting their spring yawn and rise as the start of the Dorset summer season gets underway. Easter is slightly earlier this year, which means for many…

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Changes coming at Go South Coast

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith 2024 back firmly in swing and the GP hopefully weaning me off these horrible pills, we move our attention to another group that has announced some changes recently. I thank those that have been in touch with me about…

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Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th December

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are at that lull in the proceedings where the full on British Christmas is just about getting over the hangover, and the hardcore Christmas animals are working up to the big party on Sunday night. As someone largely working…

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