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New U Links (and more)

16 July 202322 July 2023 HantsBusBluestar, First Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, GoAhead Group, Service Updates, Stagecoach South, Transpora Bus, UniLink4 Comments on New U Links (and more)

Reading Time: 6 minutesLots of little changes are coming up in the coming months which we are quickly going to report on today. I regret that many of the bus rally organisers have really been collaborating this year and yet again I am…

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Portsmouth re-tendering leaked

4 July 20235 July 2023 HantsBusFirst Solent, Service Updates, Stagecoach South3 Comments on Portsmouth re-tendering leaked
A First Solent bus in Southsea

Reading Time: 2 minutesSo I illuded to this yesterday on Twitter, although I was not in a position to write this post. It has though, I believe, answered another question in part. Someone leaked to local paper the Portsmouth News that the re-tendering…

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Roundup

3 July 20235 July 2023 HantsBusBluestar, First Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, First Wessex, GoAhead Group, Service Updates, Stagecoach South, xelabus5 Comments on Roundup
A Xelabus in Southampton on a Sunny Day

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are quite a few little bits that are floating about and are not necessarily big enough for their own post. This roundup covers Eastleigh, Portsmouth and Gosport. I had planned to annoy you all while you were wandering around…

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First (and Associated) Updates

13 June 202313 June 2023 HantsBusFirst Hampshire & Dorset, First Wessex, Service Updates, Transpora Bus
A First Solent bus in Southsea

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a few changes at First that have recently appeared in the Traffic Commissioners registration lists. We also have new news from the very south coast from next month. In Portsmouth, First Solent have a small number of changes…

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More Colour to Tipner Park & Ride

25 May 202327 May 2023 HantsBusSeasonal Services, Service Updates, xelabus2 Comments on More Colour to Tipner Park & Ride
A Xelabus in Southampton on a Sunny Day

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

17 May 202318 May 2023 HantsBusBluestar, First Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, First Wessex, GoAhead Group, morebus, Service Updates, Transpora Bus6 Comments on 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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First Portsmouth services from April

13 March 202313 March 2023 HantsBusFirst Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, Service Updates
A First Solent bus in Commercial Road, Portsmouth

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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First Solent changes in March

4 February 202316 February 2023 HantsBusFirst Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, Service Updates5 Comments on First Solent changes in March
A First Solent Eclipse bus in Gosport

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are a number of changes coming up in March with I have already talked about in previous posts. Timetables are now live though, for the The Star 7 and the improving Gosport 9 & 9A, along with other changes…

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Upcoming Changes at First Solent

11 January 202312 January 2023 HantsBusFirst Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, Service Updates1 Comment on Upcoming Changes at First Solent
A First Solent bus in Commercial Road, Portsmouth

Reading Time: 3 minutesNone of the timetable changes at First Solent are particularly major at the moment. Unless you include the new early morning and late night services in the Portsmouth City area, you get the odd change here, the occasional timing point…

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New Years Day 2023

1 January 20231 January 2023 HantsBusBluestar, First Hampshire & Dorset, First Solent, GoAhead Group, morebus, Service Updates, Southern Vectis, Stagecoach South, Uncategorised
Happy New Year Banner

Reading Time: 2 minutesHow’s the Head this morning? Wherever you chose to listen to the fireworks from, may I be the last to wish you a Happy New Year – primarily because everyone else did it between 2330 and 0030. Yes, I was…

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About Hants Bus

Hants Bus is a poor replacement for the Southampton Bus Update that has been gracing Blogspot since 2009.

Mostly talking about changes to your buses across Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight; we will also touch on transport policy, a little nostalgia, and even a little bit of calling the less professional operators to account….

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