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Does Ingliston make sense for anyone? Would that mean National Express, Megabus, Citylink etc wouldn't be able to serve Edinburgh proper at all, just a car park a 30 minute tram ride away?

TfGM must disagree, because the whole point of these changes is to get more buses running on time, and that is the performance measure they're publishing to show the Bee Network is better than the old operators. Even on the most frequent routes in London, people surely don't set off without...

I don't really get this - if you are just going to the shops sure, but if you need to be anywhere at a specific time or to make a connection surely you would want to know what time you need to get on the bus to get there in time? But anyway, only a handful of the routes affected by these...

The calls at Lea Green and Newton-le-Willows exist because there used to be such a semi fast service, but it was removed to make way for the current level of TPE service. That's the trade off, if you want faster intercity services on the same infrastructure, they can't be as frequent as they are...

Another round of timetable changes on phase 1 routes (8,10,20,21,22,35,501,520,524,575,576,601,602,603,604,605,606,607,608,609,610,635,639,640,641) from next weekend on the travel updates page https://tfgm.com/travel-updates/travel-alerts#bus Again, increasing running times. Between this round...

It's still better than the Lancashire map, which doesn't seem to be available anywhere any more. The maps showing the ticket zone boundaries also seen to have been lost in the transition to the new app. In other news, it looks like they are going to abandon the photo requirement in the new app...

I'm also interested in how this is being done now. In the city centre yesterday there were significant delays on the number 8 towards Bolton, so I looked it up on and found some interesting workings. The 16:31 to Bolton left on time, which was only possible because the inbound working skipped...

And like concessionary fares whether it actually functions as a subsidy for the service depends on how well funded it is. Does any increase in passengers* as a result of the £2 scheme actually improve the financial situation for the operator? *This might be getting off topic a bit, but I think...

This was in the new app initially, but seems to have been replaced by the information about the bus features. I don't see why they couldn't bring it back given it was in the new app. It'd be more useful at least than identifying which buses have wheelchair access in the year 2024. On the...

Those are all related to ZEBRA funding, which was awarded all the way back in March 2022, before the stop to new orders.

Given the financial situation a gap in orders wouldn't be a surprise. But also, are there that many vehicles in urgent need of replacement beyond those already directly or indirectly accounted for by the electric orders? A lot of older buses in the fleet have been seen off by service cuts in...

Makes a lot of sense to me. Aireline is the obvious place for the B5s. Presumably it makes sense to replace the Dalesway buses to have a common fleet with Aireline, and then those buses will displace some of the B7s still in regular service in Lancashire, which will probably be the oldest...

A bit more than that today at least. Over the last 24 hours Realtime Trains shows 45 freight trains passing Maryland station, so nearly one every half an hour on average. They appear to avoid peak passenger times, so almost all those trains were concentrated between 8pm-6am and 10am to 2pm.

Also the 11, which gets its number from the Little Gem S11, launched in 1987 as a Stockport - Gatley service (running every 7/8 minutes), presumably to combat Bee Line route 1 launched three weeks earlier, running every 5 minutes between Stockport and Altrincham along roughly the route now...

According to this website https://www.railwaymedia.co.uk/Timetables/GM001/n-gnh7MF which has a huge number of old timetables but I'd never heard of it until tonight, the number 7 is a service introduced by Bee Line in 1987, which would explain why it doesn't follow the old numbering system. The...