overthewater
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Interesting to hear the comments about LB management, there have been a lot of changes over the past few years as the previous team have retired. The current team is expansionist, looking at operations outside of the City and going back into coaching/tours. In some ways this makes sense, there can't be much more demand for services within the city so, if you wish to make more money (which I believe the shareholders would like) you have to diversify. I'd be very surprised if LB went to battle with Stagecoach or any other serious competitor, so far the expansion has been moving into areas from which other operators were retreating. Things change and not all of the changes at LB please me, but they are not there to please enthusiasts, and TBH it's good to have what amounts to a municipal operator.
There is STILL plenty of scope for more buses within the city limits just look at the traffic, and the retail park and of course Blackhall/Maybury Jcts. Were still waiting on the southern orbital bus service. LCB are after what it belidves to be easy money, and IF ( its a big IF) it wins I hope it will try to go after those car drives going into non Central Edinburgh.
Maybe when the trains appear and kill off the 22 to every 20mins down to OT, it will free up resources for else where in the city.
Correct and the talk on here is, another network changes is due which will see more buses on the routes.First are not retreated in West Lothian though are they? They've just had a massive simplification of their network, the fleet there on the Edinburgh services is mostly under 5 years old and they're investing on the Airport service 600.
They've just halved the service frequency between Linlithgow and Edinburgh on the 38, including removal of all buses from Bridgend and the Gyle. That's quite a major cutback!
There haven't withdrawn all buses from Bridgend, Falkirk No1 bus now goes into the village while the 38 still operate at the road end. The buses were running empty during the day, Hence why OFF peak its been cut back. I will admit there needs to be an extra bus around 9am and two on saturday mid morning, PLUS making sure the two livingston depot runs actually operate...
If you look at FB you will see numerous people with PIC highlight issues with the refurbs, believe some of the buses are not up to the basic Lothian standard... The First fleet is younger...I’d like to interject something, which would you rather travel in if you did’nt care about the whine of a ZF gearbox or the squeaks and rattles, from a point of view if you were only a passenger and not an enthuisiast or driver.
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