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 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…
Industrial Action at First Solent
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
A July Roundup (in August)
Reading Time: 2 minutesI know, I know, I have been neglecting you recently and you have been getting your information from elsewhere. You know when you have so little time and so many things to do? Well I never made it to the…