Behind the scenes of buses in the West.
Over the past decade, Dial-a-Ride schemes across Bath and North East Somerset have done extraordinary damage to the bus network. These parasitic "charities" are stealing revenue from tax paying, licenced businesses and we're supposed to think this is a good thing. Take a look at the supported bus network in B&NES. Passenger numbers on less… Continue reading Dial-a-Loss
I was out driving this morning, covering a coach job for a local operator. At one stage i passed Hartcliffe Morrisons and was waiting at the traffic lights as the CATT Community Bus left the store with a considerable load of pensioners on board. It struck me that these were precisely the sort of people… Continue reading Breaking links
A bit of numbercrunching can find some interesting results. First were gifted £240,000 by North Somerset Council in early 2017 for interurban network improvements which are to start at the end of April. Surely a significant uplift in funding such as this would only produce winners...? X1, X1A, X2: Bristol - Backwell - Congresbury -… Continue reading Winners and Losers in North Somerset
This will only be a short extension to one of the themes covered in the previous post, that being working together as an industry to not look like a bunch of squabbling children. Meanwhile in Wiltshire... I was recently made aware (via an email group) of some changes coming up to the Nadder Valley services… Continue reading Pushing an Agenda (2)
First had a difficult day in Bath last Thursday. Following a serious road accident immediately outside their Weston Island depot at 3am in the morning, the police closed the road in order that their investigations could take place for around nine hours. This prevented First from getting any of their buses out on the road.… Continue reading Pushing an Agenda
