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    £2 fare - but what next?

    I have heard it suggested, both in general circles and specific to the bus industry, that cash is still the preferred medium of payment for those on a limited budget. Essentially, cash is not there to help you spend, it's there to stop you spending: you have a finite amount, and when it runs...
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    £2 fare - but what next?

    Let's remember (if nothing else to keep the thread on the £2 fare, and not disappear off more generally) that the £2 fare was designed to provide "evident" government support as part of 'cost of living' measures for those who do not drive, or choose not to for certain trips. It clearly was not...
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    £2 fare - but what next?

    I doubt it has hit them in any way, judging from the amount of passengers they seemed to be carrying (on normal services, not the "BRD", which I presume is short for "Bus Running Day" services). The same concerns were expressed very publicly by Delaine, at the Omnibus Society Presidential...
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    Stagecoach South & South East

    Worth remembering that the new funding is BSIP-related, so can only be used to improve specific services, and likely agreed with the government. Whilst the strings have been loosened, it still seems to be intended more as a "kick up the jacksie" rather than "life support". In relation to the...
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    Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Bus News

    There is now a story on the Arriva website suggesting this is intentional: https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/latest-news/electric-bus-on-university-park-and-jubilee-campus
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    Gravesend Tilbury Ferry

    It appears that Thames Clippers are the current managers of Gravesend Pier, and they do run some special trips from Gravesend and Tilbury into Central London. That makes me wonder if the "second bidder" Kent claim (ref. my post 4) was Thames Clippers. In theory, it seems very possible. The...
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    Trivia: More than one operator on town services

    Seaford town service 120 is mostly operated by Cuckmere Buses, but the Saturday afternoon service is provided under tender by Compass Bus.
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    Gravesend Tilbury Ferry

    Having listened to the item at 1.5x speed, the general approach is that there is now no doubt there will be a break in service, and that it seems likely future funding must come from other than county level, but that Kent is attempting to find a 'coalition of the willing' to fund a later...
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    European cities with ‘classic’ bus/tram still in service

    Rome also has some fairly elderly vehicles - there is more info on the German and Italian wikipedia pages than the English native version, but those in the 7000-series date from 1948/9. The Giardinetti "urban railway" also has some tram-like vehicles dating from 1926, but it appears this line...
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    How the term "rail replacement bus" is viewed.

    Rainham is a major part of an urban area, total population ca. 275,000, with a bus at least every 15 minutes along the main road a few minutes walk from the station when they have enough drivers and spare parts. The local buses are also blue flecked with dirt, and this was so white if it were...
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    Gravesend Tilbury Ferry

    This will be discussed on Thursday at a meeting of the Kent County Council Environment & Transport Cabinet Committee. The papers are too long to quote in full, but item 12 (and associated appendix) are the ones to look for...
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    How the term "rail replacement bus" is viewed.

    I'd contend that one of the reasons why Rail Replacement is considered such an issue is because they tend to happen at the weekends, when more "non-regular" rail users come out to play: it's not day in, day out commuters, but leisure travellers who 'expect' the train to run to the timetable...
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    Demand Responsive Transport

    Isn't one of the problems that BSIP spending does indeed have strings attached, namely a specific list of projects agreed to by the Department for Transport (DfT), for whom Demand Responsive Transport is a big draw, and thus likely to get approval? I hope I'm not misremembering if I say the...
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    Yellow buses route 19 Poole query.

    There's a reference here https://web.archive.org/web/20150321215508/https://www.bybus.co.uk/routes/ to it being a service between Newtown, Poole, Rossmore and Trinidad Estate. There's further reference here...
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    Query: Veolia Cymru final services and timetable

    If you can remember their website address, it might be worth investigating whether the web archive (archive.org) has anything in their systems. Even if you can't, you can sometimes navigate to it through another website, e.g. a local authority list of operators. It is primarily designed to...
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    Newington Landslip (23/02)

    I can only say that there were a good half dozen enforcement officers at Chatham at 5:30 last night, although that isn't unusual in and of itself. They might have had more success at a station being served by its usual number of trains, though! Yesterday's pattern seems to be carried over for...
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    Newington Landslip (23/02)

    Apologies if already mentioned elsewhere - I couldn't see anything on searching sensible keywords (e.g. station names ordered by date). SouthEastern reported a landslip at Newington, between Rainham and Sittingbourne, on Friday. The unscheduled closure ran through the weekend, and has now been...
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    Tube Map of Britain

    A few posters here seem to have had a sense of humour by-pass... Personally, I love the idea of there being a non-HS1 Kent-Essex rail link, even if Basildon wouldn't be my first choice! It's a very nice attempt to get the geography vaguely right in connection with a slightly doctored tube...
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    Railfan interest among 18-35s

    I look at this from a bus enthusiasm perspective rather than rails, but I think this sums up the situation perfectly. All too often we hear claims that younger people "aren't interested", when what it actually meant is "not interested in the same things I am". Perhaps the situation is different...
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    Arriva (Beds, Bucks, Herts)

    Confirmed that Arriva have a habit of transferring buses between depots by tow, often to the confusion of the engineering team. It doesn't necessarily mean the bus is broken!

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