Recent content by gingerheid

Not sure if it really counts, but McGills tried a 902 from Gourock to Edinburgh. In one sense it was an attempt to rekindle (albeit once a day Tuesday to Saturday) what was previously a historical Western Scottish / Clydeside Scottish / Scottish Citylink hourly service. In another sense though...

McGills continues to operate a 17 route that is now a local service based around Paisley. The section from Paisley to the Queen Elizabeth hospital is the truncated remains of a Western SMT route from Glasgow to Largs!

It means the latter, so yes it means the service is worse than presently. This is particularly bad news for Orchard Park, as the A buses need to be single decks to get under the guided busway bridge past the railway station and are therefore very often full when they arrive in Orchard Park or...

That's a fascinating route, and the history of changes to it has been even more fascinating. The first version functioned as a proper airport service. The second version still terminated there, but didn't run early or late enough to be an airport service. I wonder if v3 is a last ditch...

And this is before we find out if Nicola Sturgeon is getting charged, and before we find out what all the funny goings on in Dundee with people falling out windows and so on were, either of which could turn into a something very negative for them!

If they were being cut because there was a reasonable rail alternative then a worthwhile aspiration would be being achieved. However we are where we are, and where we are is that it's quicker to get the train from Southampton to Paris or Brussels than to Glasgow. Edit: Are there really no...

Things like this turn me slightly communist! They need to have a clear understanding that the place won't get planning permission for anything else, and that if Edinburgh is without a bus station for as much one day there will be a compulsory purchase order!

If this is a case of remarkable mistunderstanding rather than fraud then a solicitor will, despite the unfortunate cost, be best positioned to be able to help you articulate this.

Easyjet manage to hand out food vouchers electronically and automatically, without the involvement of any local staff presence. Perfectly possible if people are willing to put in a basic amount of effort to not treat passengers customers with contempt! I accept though that the last condition...

Can't they set up a system to offer vouchers for use at arrival or departure station if they can't provide on-train catering?

If you're visiting Estonia and want to have been only just above Russian soil while travelling on land just for the sake of it then the Saatse boot might be your best option. There's a road from Värska to Saatse that crosses through Russian territory (entirely unremarkable forest) for a few...

I do support busways, but this is a great example of how all the flaws in execution can build up. If it wasn't for the low bridge south of the railway station these wouldn't be single deckers, and that would help. If the Orchard Park East stop wasn't built metres around the corner from being...

The long standing Hunts & District Service was broadly three buses an hour (with peak extras) that had three slightly different routes between St Ives and Huntingdon (553, 554, 555). (Wyton Airfield and Houghton village were both served broadly hourly, and the services that went to neither also...

If it is accepted logic (I disagree, but I realise it's just me v the world!) that the Southern Guideway doesn't have sufficient room to be safe, is there any plausible realistic way of getting trams into Cambridge at all? Personally I think there absolutely is (railway station, Station Rd...

If we can't sort out infrastructure problems with existing well used and often overcrowded lines (not to mention Wisbech or Haverhill etc), are we just on the cusp of sorting out something better than a busway? I wish we were, but it doesn't seem like it. Though interestingly Haverhill itself...