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Little update. Stagecoach South Wales have reregistered the 122 and 124 services to use the new bus station from the 10th June. Specific information is courtesy of Bustimes.org (who in turn get their data from the traffic commissioners dataset). Possibly this will be the opening date which is as...

There is a timetable change to the McGills operation on the 23rd May (091 and 092 increasing) and so my guess is that this is a little bit of a trial on the Edinburgh-Glasgow 090 but also they may be still trying to confirm the timetable for after the 23rd May.

You can search for registered routes on the UK Government website. https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/. You can search by route number, legal operator name, operators licence number and start/end point (though start and end points can...

Flixbus have never been very good at keeping people informed about the local journeys issue. I'm not sure if on the continent, their stops tend to be much further apart, or whether these rules don't apply over there. If so, that could explain why Flixbus is so bad at promotion of these...

Yes, granted. Can but rarely do sadly.

It depends if the service is tendered or commercial. If it's tendered/supported by the council, if the bus operator is honest and/or the council is good at monitoring tracking data, the operator can have deductions made for any mileage lost and some councils also fine operators for cancellations...

You shouldn't be making that journey and that is why Flixbus won't sell tickets or do any seat reservations for that journey. Legally, if a passenger is travelling less than 15 miles on a regular scheduled service, it must be registered. If McGills are caught by the traffic commissioner letting...

Because of the rules regarding local passengers ('Local' deemed as passengers alighting less than 15 miles from where they boarded, measured as the crow flies), passengers can only use Livingston stop to travel to or from Glasgow. This will remain the case unless a Livingston stop is moved...

Leicester (I am guessing that is where you are from given your forum location), does have most of it's services from Fosse Park but there are a few services each day from St Margarets Bus Station. 3 to London, 1 to Glasgow on the N10 and the new 079 (Manchester via Nottingham Phoenix Park...

Looking at Firsts open data via bustimes (The basics are to add ?detailed=1 onto the end of the url, the more in depth stuff I won't explain as it gets complex for average users) Mon-Fri, the 19:50 from Kidsgrove will run off the 18:30 4A which will terminate at Kidsgrove Town hall at 19:26, the...

I agree but attempts should still be made to publicise this with enough notice for some people to be made aware. It was one of the 'issues with the deregulated bus network' that often got brought up when bus routes changed (operators make changes and give little notice to pax) and it's always...

They didn't give any details though. People should be given around 2 weeks notice really of timetable changes as often it can mean people having to replan their journeys and sometimes, even just amending the times of the first bus by 2 minutes can be the difference in someone needing to find...

And to think, pre franchising, it was often used said about how with deregulation, bus operators could change timetables when they wanted with minimal notice given to anyone. And yet here we are, with buses under public control, doing just that!

Where are you getting those figures from for bus journey length? The 80 and 82 generally take an hour or just under less so not really 'well over an hour'. If you live near a part of the route that the 82A serves, that takes less than 50 minutes generally. No bus from Speke to Liverpool takes...

Diamond, from my experiences, tended to try and keep buses running even if stupidly late and then when the bus got back to Bolton, they would try to regulate if they could with the next driver taking a 'fresh' bus. Rarely did Diamond do part services, unless it was a major disruption and it...

As I've said, the trackless tram and improved buses to South Parkway has been tried and tried again. It's useless. They had the 501 dedicated bus from 2009-2013 and then from 2016 until 2018 the 500 diverted to Parkway but it has never proved to be worthwhile. If you wanted to improve links to...

I've said it before but it seemed to get brushed over. Why doesn't Cross Country have 2 services in retail systems? Operationally 1 train but for passenger facing systems including booking engines etc, it's actually 2 trains. Southbound, this would work as having a normal service from...

Improvements to the airport should be enhanced bus operating hours rather than anything else. That is what would give best value for money. A dedicated South Parkway to Airport link used to exist and has been tried in many many forms for absolutely years, it's always been little used and hence...

Arrivals at the Airport are 04:05, 07:05, 13:00, 16:15, 22:10. Departing Bristol Airport 05:25, 08:30, 14:20, 17:35, 23:30. The service is due to be expanded at the end of May as well to include an additional 3 departures each way giving an overall 8 buses per day each way. Stops will be Swansea...

Stagecoach South Wales charge £10 if you forget to tap off though, First charge you the maximum fare to the end of the route and this counts towards your caps as well (Stagecoach apparently (according to drivers) it doesn't count towards daily or weekly caps so it can add up if you forget to tap...