Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a busy week if you are using the buses. Every bus operator is changing services to tie in with the return of the schools and colleges. First Solent have some additional changes, so we will cover as much as…
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Changes to Bluestar on 8th March
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery bus company is changing their bus timetables to reflect the return to school and college education next week. While some are adjusting their entire schedule, GoAhead have already increased much of their bus network, so are only making minor…
Xelabus from 8th March
Reading Time: 3 minutesXelabus have announced their service uplift from Monday 8th March. They have not updated their timetables yet, but at least they tried.
Changes at First Solent from Monday
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe number of changes to bus services has been remarkedly reduced during this shorter Lockdown 3. We say shorter, until such time as we know better from our Government. First Hampshire have made a few more smaller changes than some…
Reductions at Bluestar on Sunday
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing other bus operators reducing their services across the area, GoAhead have announce a small number of service reductions across Southampton. This is on top of most Bluestar bus services moving to a reduced, or School Holiday timetable last Sunday.…
City Red reductions Monday
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was debating, I was planning, I wanted to write a piece about some of the good and bad parts of our local bus companies updating their COVID service. I had been inspired about posting on this excellent post by…
CityRed 11 Extended
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst Southampton have announced that from Sunday 24th January, they will be extending the CityRed 11 service to the north side of Southampton Central Station. This was originally planned to run from this weekend, but for some reason was delayed…
School Holidays Begin at Bluestar & more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile all the schools are closed, and teachers starting to say school won’t re-open until all the teachers are vaccinated it seems that most school services are starting to slow down or stop. GoAhead companies are starting to announce that…
Xelabus Changes Today
Reading Time: 3 minutesXelabus confirmed over Christmas that when the schools went back last week – okay, when schools did a day in school last week – that they would not be returning to anything near a normal service. When the new national…
Improvements to Bluestar Tomorrow
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBluestar announced, last week (I know – I missed it – too much Eggnog) that there are service improvements starting tomorrow. Service 16 will see a new 10 minute frequency Monday to Friday Peak hours roughly 0700 to 0830 into…