Reading Time: 2 minutesI received an email from a blog reader between Christmas and New Year. In a similar way that some local newspapers publish letters from their readers, I thought that it might be interesting to try something new for 2025 and…
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Bus Times: New Years Day 2025
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Years Day has traditionally been a day where heritage bus owners take to the streets in parts of our area for a range of events. Today is no different except the fact that the Met Office has issued a…
Bus Times: New Years Eve 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo as you can tell, the scheduling for the posts is going, okay. Well, I say okay but last nights came out two hours late as I… did a typo. We fast forward though to the last day of the…
Bus Times: 27th December 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the enforced Christmas holiday we hope to see the last few days of busy buses and people taking advantage of the £2 bus fare cap. The service levels that are out and about Hampshire and Dorset vary, so hopefully…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…