Reading Time: 4 minutesStagecoach announced this week that fares are increasing on some of it’s ticket range from Tuesday 1st March, as well as launching a new range of Flexi-Day tickets that should suit partial work from home commuters and more. The reasoning…
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Bluestar Increases Next Weekend
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBluestar are hot on the heels of their service increases to their cross-city services and have more bus running from 27th February. You will know from last week that there were increases to the 17 (to a pre-COVID frequency) and…
A Weekend of Updates
Reading Time: 3 minutesI had hoped to be able to bring you various bits of news on a week of travels last week. Indeed I did go to Southampton and Reading, with the former telling you about changes to car parks, bus hubs…
Southampton Re-development Forward
Reading Time: 4 minutesNow, way back during the pandemic, I told you about the plans that Southampton had with their Transporting Cities Fund and some of the big changes that they are hoping will bring public transport in Southampton forward. Some of these…
Quickest Cancellation in History?
Reading Time: 3 minutesUPDATED Saturday 5th February: Simon Gard, Operations Manager of Southampton Mini Link advises on Facebook that the Marwell (Not Zoo) service has been withdrawn because a competing operator has now registered to run the service on a commercial rather than…
Bluestar to Add Back Buses
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis coming weekend, Bluestar are adding buses back into it’s cross-ciry services and bringing them back towards their pre-pandemic levels. This service increase is being attributed to increasing staffing levels. Bluestar 17 between Adanac Park – General Hospital – City…
New Operator for Marwell
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is one of those services that has been run on and off for many years, but has never seemed to make enough money for an operator to be running it for long. As we emerge from the dark and…
Ding! Ding! Tickets Please!
Reading Time: 4 minutesNot a service update that will bring delight to you. A number of operators have announced changes to their ticket arrangements and prices that are taking affect soon. This means that you might find your ticket is no longer available,…
Back to Normal
Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome to 2022! If you are back at work today, or back at school, you are probably just grabbing your coffee from the Tassimo (Nespresso is also available) realising that you did not actually iron that shirt or indeed rolling…
Changes at Bluestar in the New Year
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt must have been hiding on the news page and not prominent on the front page, because changes to Bluestar announced more than 2 weeks ago have been missed! Due to the ongoing driver shortages and pandemic, GoAhead Group have…