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…
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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…
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,…
Stagecoach Changes in September
Reading Time: 4 minutesI was – over the course of a week – writing this nice short piece of the things that had happened over the last few weeks. It has been a long few weeks and I thought this would be a…
It’s All A Bit of a Ramble
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs we head to the warmer part of the summer (unless last week was the summer) Go South Coast have lodged some leisurely summer Sunday services to help you into the countryside. These services are being supported by Three Rivers…
Hampshire flogs Money at Some Buses, while Consulting to Cut Others!
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou may remember that I posted not so long ago about the Hampshire County Council plan to consult on the future of bus services, while I assumed that the long term plan was to do away with council supported bus…
Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th December
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are at that lull in the proceedings where the full on British Christmas is just about getting over the hangover, and the hardcore Christmas animals are working up to the big party on Sunday night. As someone largely working…
Boxing Day 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo the cold turkey is being sliced for sandwiches, the most hardy are getting dressed ready to head to the Boxing Day sales that started on Saturday 23rd December (go figure) so what are your chances of getting there? Well…