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I’ve read about the 88’s poor approach to compliant timings on this thread but I actually experienced it this evening on my first trip on the service, the 18:50 off Altrincham. On time ex Altrincham, 7-10 minutes early from the Airport perimeter to Wilmslow where I alighted to walk to the...

First Potteries and D&G both run separate services 7 & 7A in Stoke. There can’t be many examples of ‘old fashioned’ competition left? I.e. same route and number, competing for passengers?

Stagecoach have a flat-fare policy of £1.90 within Hartlepool. The longest route this applies to is the extended service 3 journeys which traverse from the northern tip of the town to its southern extremities, taking 60 minutes via snaking route. Could this be the furthest distance permitted...

How deeply uninspiring. For one of the biggest BSIP awards in the country, reinstating a bare minimum evening and Sunday service is really disappointing. There was some creative ideas in the original BSIP proposal, including a Wolstanton and Festival Park service, a northern city circular...

I’m not sure but are you suggesting one campaign is the above and one isn’t? Because I can’t see the difference between them.

LNER had been running the ‘I am…doing it all on an LNER train’ ad campaign with the lady in a seat transitioning through different scenarios for most of the previous year or two. This didn’t seem to attract half as much criticism as demonstrated in this thread. Is this just because this campaign...

Potteries operating vehicles in 9 liveries across 14 regular routes does give an ambiguous look to the network to non-users.

Two memorable journeys, the first a return from Manchester to Blackpool in about 2012/3 on Classic Bus North West X70. A ‘normal’ journey should have sufficed as interesting enough, what with it inexplicably being operated by ex-London bendy Citaros. About 30 minutes late leaving Albert Square...

I sampled a crush loaded V2 about 15:00 today with passengers standing on the stairs, I don’t think it’s a service on death’s door.

The first of the 2013 ‘Mainline’ Streetlites have started to be moved back to Manchester (Oldham). These buses spent 9 months in 2022 in their ‘half dressed’ refurbished but unbranded state and just 11 months in service as branded before withdrawal. The real winner, as always, is the design...

I count 37 ‘proper’ seats on an Omnicity and 32 on an Eclipse E200. I’ve discounted tip-up seats as forcing passengers onto those for inter-urban journeys is not compatible with growing patronage. Peak journeys already see standees on Omnicities, I’ve thought the Streedecks have been welcome...

Thanks, must have missed that. So there’s still no obvious replacement for the Omnicities. The Streetlites are not a pleasant ride on express services and the ex Eclipse Enviros don’t have the capacity.

I’ve not seen any forthcoming registrations to restore term time frequency to the 25 yet. Are they planning on maintaining a 15 minute service throughout this year? Could be some crush loadings and frustrations if any journeys are cancelled. It would however allow the Streetdecks to continue to...

I’ve noticed a change in recent weeks in how information is displayed in Google Maps. For at least Stagecoach and First, when a departure is expanded for more detail, the entire workings of the vehicle are displayed as one continuous run. Which if a vehicle interworks with other services...

The same document shows an intention to launch 50% of the improvements in 23/24 & 50% in 24/25. Probably a moot point for a lot of it now as I assume commercial cuts will continue with operators expecting the authority to dip into the BSIP pot to maintain - as per the the 98, 99 & Sunday 23. Win...

Tomorrow’s jam seems to be explored in detail in the updated BSIP document linked in the press release: https://www.stoke.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2206/stoke-on-trent_city_council_s_enhanced_partnership_plan_and_scheme.pdf Appendix 1 lists the following plans: Linking service 3 & 6...

It has been raised before but now is certainly time for D&G to revise their website and organise services by area. The current design relies upon the user already knowing the number of the bus they want to use, which considering the scarcity of roadside information these days may not be the...

With the 9 and new 7A running within a few minutes of each other on shared sections of the route in both directions I can’t see the 7A a long term prospect. There’s a good 8 mins or so dead time in the new 7A which could have brought something new or creative to maybe Wedgewood Farm, Little...

Reading the press release from First it is now the case that the 98, 99 & Sunday 23 will now be subsidised, which I imagine will take a chunk out of the BSIP Budget. Deeply concerning that working 10 years the 98/99 corridor has gone from every 10 minutes with Porthill shorts and competition...

Revised timetables for D&G 2 & 43 from 2nd July now on their website: http://www.dgbus.co.uk/assets/2_2023-07-02.pdf http://www.dgbus.co.uk/assets/43_2023-07-02.pdf 2 remains half-hourly but only running from 09:30-16:00 - aprox 2 hours off each end of today's operation. 43 reduced to hourly...