Other journeys between Machynlleth, Oswestry and Wrexham on the T12 are still operated by Tanat Valley Coaches - the link to a revised timetable in post 1648 refers only to changes affectng Lloyds' journeys. Although of course the utterly useless TrawsCymru website makes it as clear as mud. Mixed with treacle. And put into a non-transparent container. Then buried somewhere.
lol just about right for traveline... announce a revised service and then only put half the timetable up... of course anyone thinking "how do I get from Wrexham to Machynlleth" will click on that link and think "I can't"!
You have hit the nail on the head. Mid Wales is the forgotten region. No connectivity of Trawscymru services through Aberystwyth / No Quality Partnership Agreements in place to help connections and the North/South route broken beyond repair. As you point out one way traffic for the T12 and T1C to Wrexham and Cardiff.
The point is though that the Traveline site is very misleading... it has a banner saying amended T12 timetable... but then only shows half the timetable. To the uninitiated looking at travel options it would appear that the service is only provided to make journeys to Wrexham.
Sounds more like they're suggesting the local authority should do something however, as they haven't got any money, they're unlikely to!
We should find out sometime in March when the WAG/Traws Cymru bother updating the timetables!
AFAIK both the T2 and T3 are operated on GB rules using the silly 50km cheat... I think there must have been a new edict from the TC concerning this sort of route, something along the lines of "each section must have a different number" These aren't the first routes recently to have been re-registered so that each section has a different number on the registrations...
if you mean from bus co hq I don't think so as it seems to be all operators that are doing this as time goes on.
Until the timetables are published nobody can tell however it's unlikely that anything to mean changing buses.
I suspect it's just a catch all response to try to discourage people. Ultimately most public bodies have people within them that don't like the FOI and they'll try to avoid complying with it if they can. You might have to contact them again to get an official refusal which you could then appeal however I suspect whoever dealt with you was being overzealous and they'll just say you should have been allowed to record the information.
I asked that question of them a month ago. Their reply on 11 December was: "We are currently awaiting the website content in question from the Welsh Government. Once we have received this the information will be added to the website straight away, sorry for the inconvenience." But the email went on to add that the timetable was available on Traveline Cymru, and gave the link. So they (whoever and however many people actually work to promote TrawsCymru) know the service exists, and its timetable, but still refuse to acknowledge it on the TrawsCymru website.
Thank you for your response.
The T12 dosent go anywhere near Cardiff airport (or any WAG offices) so isn't a core Traws service!