Took the 8 a few times . I thought of it as a outer circle to the 90
That's one way of looking at it tbh. Was on the 8 from Robroyston to Hillhead on Monday. Felt like I was never getting off it and the bus was on time the whole way
Took the 8 a few times . I thought of it as a outer circle to the 90
That's one way of looking at it tbh. Was on the 8 from Robroyston to Hillhead on Monday. Felt like I was never getting off it and the bus was on time the whole way
Jeepers that’s quite a journey you get on the old 35/300 now. I forgot about that. It’s a bit like taking the 49 from Dalkeith to the Fort. In fact, the 49 seems like an unnecessarily long route come to think of it......I used to feel like taking the 35 from Gogarburn to Leith
I Nik named it the suicide service....
(My preference was 35 Gogarburn to Gyle, then switch to the 22 to Leith, there were a few occasions when this wasn't possible and had to 35 it the whole way)
Stagecoach East Scotland's X24 St Andrews to Glasgow Airport, all 3 hours 30 mins of it . I got this bus once from St Andrews to Buchanan Bus Stn and it was diverted through Kilsyth, Croy and Craiglinn due to the motorway being closed at Castlecary, thank god it was well after the evening peak as it only added an extra 30 mins to the journey, and not during the evening rush hour.
Sounds like the 21A to me.Apologies for the fact that I can't actually remember the route number (I'd greatly appreciate it if somebody more knowledgeable than myself could fill me in on this), but quite some time ago, I had to travel from Brighton Marina to the city centre, and I caught the first bus that turned up heading towards Brighton, which happened to be a Scania double decker thing (sorry, I don't know my bus names too well).
I was surprised at how long it actually took to get back, as to my ignorance, I had no clue that this bus would in fact take a ridiculously long, though I must admit it was very enjoyable and the views were spectacular, detour through almost every residential street we passed, to the top of a hill which practically bordered the countryside, before travelling along the top of this ridge and returning back down the hill not very far from the street the bus came up on, heading down into Brighton via every lamp post known to man.
The journey must've taken at least 40 minutes, which is quite long compared to the shorter, more direct journey on the route 7. Though, I suppose this bus route wasn't designed for people like myself, with the intention of travelling all the way from Brighton Marina to the city centre!
Indeed I would've probably been quicker walking or taking the Volks Electric Railway, but I don't necessarily regret taking the long bus journey, as it did, as aforementioned, reward me with some fabulous views looking down on Brighton and the sea, and I wasn't really in a rush to get to the city centre either. I just didn't anticipate the bus journey to take quite as long as it did, as I'm not from the area, and thus I'm not too familiar with the bus network. In addition, I've always taken the route 7 preliminary to that experience.You might have been quicker walking, or even taking the Volks Electric Railway from Black Rock Beach Station!
Glasgow and the outskirts are full of long bus routes that are just a bit too long and I would love to know if there are any stupidly long routes in your area. Can be any company.
Glasgow has the 2,3,6,8,21,46,57,60,65,90 and Lanarkshire has the 201 which is also extremely long.
Personally I feel like the full route for a bus should be 90mins max. What do you guys think?
Why?
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At the last review in 2016 the council were going to withdraw the funding altogether but backtracked a bit after a campaign by the residents of the villages it served. There used to be a commuter journey on a morning and return run on a night that were run commercially by EYMS as they were run off the back of school runs, however when Pocklington lost nearly all of the school runs they had in 2011, very nearly causing the depots closure, the commuter journeys on the 195 were axed as they couldn't be run viably. I drove the last one out of York.Thank you for this. I guess its just hanging on now - any further need for cuts to council spending or sizeable reduction in passenger numbers could bin it completely. There will be those passengers who look back on the days when you drove it with fond memory.
Jeepers that’s quite a journey you get on the old 35/300 now. I forgot about that. It’s a bit like taking the 49 from Dalkeith to the Fort. In fact, the 49 seems like an unnecessarily long route come to think of it.
Living in London, I find it rather amusing to read complaints about bus routes being too long. Here, the trend has long been to truncate routes, and recently a bunch of routes have been trimmed at the Central London end, and one that had bucked the trend and had been fairly recently extended -- the 59, extended from Euston to Kings Cross -- has been cut back to Euston again, thus ending the only direct route between Waterloo and Kings Cross/St Pancras.
A look at a London bus map from the early 1950s is fascinating, as cross-Central London routes were common (I don't think there are any today), and many routes were roughly double the length they are today. It would be interesting to learn the rationale for this trend towards shorter routes in London.
I would imagine that the difference in the amount of traffic between today and 1950's London is phenomenal. running a route across 1950's London would encounter little congestion compared with today. Not only that, but I think it would be relatively quick and reliable. I think it would be complete madness to try and run a bus route across London today. It would be unreliable in today's traffic conditions and so slow, who would be mad enough to use it?
But does the X99 take unnecessarily long? It simply follows the A9 doesn't it?In the Highlands there are the X99 Inverness to Thurso and Scabster and also the 10 Inverness to Aberdeen both routes in excess of 4 hours and 100 miles end to end.
The Stagecoach East Scotland X7 between Perth and Aberdeen has a standard journey time of 3h45 each way.
But does the X99 take unnecessarily long? It simply follows the A9 doesn't it?
In the Highlands there are the X99 Inverness to Thurso and Scabster and also the 10 Inverness to Aberdeen both routes in excess of 4 hours and 100 miles end to end.
Living in London, I find it rather amusing to read complaints about bus routes being too long. Here, the trend has long been to truncate routes, and recently a bunch of routes have been trimmed at the Central London end, and one that had bucked the trend and had been fairly recently extended -- the 59, extended from Euston to Kings Cross -- has been cut back to Euston again, thus ending the only direct route between Waterloo and Kings Cross/St Pancras.
A look at a London bus map from the early 1950s is fascinating, as cross-Central London routes were common (I don't think there are any today), and many routes were roughly double the length they are today. It would be interesting to learn the rationale for this trend towards shorter routes in London.
The 843 From Leeds to Scarborough is daft why does it have to go via Seacroft green and Seamer?.
Neither are unnecessarily long however. The only reason they're 'slower' is because there isn't the demand for both a direct and slow bus along the entire route. Especially not in the case of the X99. The 10 is direct between Aberdeen and Inverurie anyway. Cutting the 10 up wouldn't work either as you have lots of short journey passengers.
I wouldn't have an issue with the X99 apart from the Wick/Thurso issue above and the cuts they have made to the timetable in the last two years, the 10 on the other hand is just unacceptably slow for a through journey. Over 4 hours when the train (which is not exactly high speed) is around 2h20 and driving is 2h30-3h.
Is there no demand or is there little custom because the service is too slow? It is attractive to operators to try to combine both interurban and short traffic but with journey times that slow there is no way they are getting much in the way of paying custom for Aberdeen - Inverness journeys, free pass use maybe.
Used to be Trent Barton Transpeak Manchester Chortlon Street Bus Station to Nottingham Broadmarsh Bus Station via Stockport, Hazel Grove, Buxton, Bakewell, Belper and Derby. Think it took nearly 4 hours but a bargain for £7.