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The A1 high wind closures are usually only east of Dunbar (main problem area is around the bridge over the Tyne) with very rare closures from Haddington eastwards so the X6 won't be affected. The X7 is single deck east of Haddington anyway

I think so - curtailing two thirds of the 26 at the Grammar cuts that service from the whole east side of Musselburgh and leaves Levenhall eastwards through the Pans to Cockenzie with only a half hourly service. If you also cut the 44 back then that further impacts the same eastern side of...

Few issues there This seems to leave Seton Sands with only one bus per hour (currently 3) and Cockenzie (3) and Prestonpans (6) with the only the X8 or a change at Eastfield Wallyford has lost a key and only non-express service and you've slowed the 113 by making it loop through Wallyford - (to...

Sometimes I won't know which *day* I will be returning let alone what time. Previously I often bought a off peak return for that flexibilty, once single-leg pricing came into force I just bought the return off peak/super off peak on the day knowing there was a maximum I would be paying for the...

Having seen how Lothian Buses / East Coast Buses quickly picked up the pieces of First's exit from East Lothian and the step change in service provision out this way I'm confident that Lothian Buses / Lothian Country will, in time, have a similar level of success in West Lothian.

When Lothian embarked on their plan to get their fleet up to Euro V minimum and then fully Euro VI I don't think there was much available in the way of electrics nor was there anything immediately in the pipeline with suitable performance and range. That program immediately started to reduce the...

There does seem to be plans from the SVBM and Taybus to run some of their heritage fleets on Saturday (same day but not directly linked to the LB open day). I can't find the FB post but the route mentioned was Hayharket-Princes St-Meadowbank-Joppa. Buses running 1000-1600 numbered as the 126

Curtailing the 44 removes most of Wallyford's services to the city centre (leaves only the X6 unless you can get down to the P&R) and a good chunk of Musselburgh's city services and all it's non-express buses along the Milton Road/Willowbrae route for the 34 "student hours" would be most of the...

The problem is then where do you split it and where can you turn a bus in the centre with space for a layover. To keep good connections you'd probably have to turn the Balernos at Regent Road and the Wallyfords at Haymarket which would increase the number of buses trying to get along Princes St...

Over 160 million watched it live in 2022 (either on broadcast TV or streaming) bit of a dip as Russia and Belarus had been chucked out the EBU so that dropped the numbers. # Many countries take it very seriously with their national finals being almost as big a deal as ESC itself. Bigger if you...

Exactly - it's only relatively recently (2000's) that it's become a large spectator event The EBU's minimum capacity requirement is normally 10000 most venues recently have been about the 15-16000 with Tel Aviv smaller and Lisbon a bit bigger (22000) Watching it on TV you really don't notice...

A useful thing from the Italian policy of PCR on arrival is they are sequencing the positive tests in their labs and initial findings show it to be all existing Omnicron variants so nothing really to worry about. The Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni, said at a press conference Thursday (29th) that...

It's worth looking at the local branches website -ours (Edinburgh and South East Scotland) maintains a list of pubs that offer a discount. It's also quite common with the bigger chains for staff not to know about any CAMRA discounts until someone shows them the button on the till, that's just...

To quote Humza Yousaf (Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care) any suggestion of that is "complete baloney"

Links Gardens reopened some months ago (could never understand why that was closed in the first place as it just moved traffic onto far narrower roads)

Just public transport (not incoming airlines though) and healthcare/care homes etc - events and venues kept their mask mandate later but that was removed on 01/06/22. In Turin in May compliance was high especially on trains and metro, Rome in June - compliance still high on the Metro but less...

Italy's mask requirements are now only on trains. coaches and buses (planes have now been dropped). Having been in Italy early in May (Turin) and then late June (Rome) the wearing of masks has dropped significantly and was only really noticeable on busy buses and the metro. Even at the three big...

Depends on the mask. The bit that seems to get lost is that PPE is generally only intended to protect the wearer from a hazard it's not for collective protection. RPE (Respiratory Protective Equipment) is almost entirely used to protect the wearer from an external hazard ie dust, solvents...

Italy got hit hard and early with covid, particularly in the north around Lombardy. They had a pretty torrid time of it and I think that has influenced their approach since as they were determined to avoid a return to that situation. We have friends in Lodi, just outside Milan, which was pretty...

Your first point is incorrect - case rates have been relatively stable in Scotland since the start of October (and consistently lower than any other part of the UK) . Scottish vaccine passports were introduced on 1st October (not that I think they had any noticeable impact on case rates nor...