13:35, January 30, 2017
Some early evening journeys on Crewe town service 12 (Leighton Link) run up to 10 minutes later and there will be an extra Sunday evening journey to and from Leighton Hospital on service 12E. Service 99 between Congleton and Macclesfield will see service reductions so that overall reliability is improved.
13:37, January 28, 2017
The following changes affect Arriva bus services between Northwich and Winsford from tomorrow (information from Arriva website):
Service 29 Monday to Friday journeys from Winsford Town Centre will be revised to operate hourly to Over St Johns Estate, not serving Grange estate (See 29A).
Saturday service will serve both the Over St Johns estate and the Grange estate in one direction only.
New Service 29A Service 29A will operate an hourly service to the Grange Estate, however will not serve Over St Johns.
Moulton and Davenham will no longer be served by service 29/29A, except for dedicated morning and afternoon journeys.
13:39, January 12, 2017
Thankfully, Derbyshire County Council has shelved its plan to cut funding to all subsidised bus services. There still may be some rationalisation but the good news is that planned wholesale cuts are to be no more. What follows is the news item from the council website’s public transport section: Bus passengers in Derbyshire are to keep services paid for by us as plans to cut public transport funding are reviewed. It had been proposed to withdraw funding for around 144 subsidised services from October 2017. Following consultation where more than 90% of respondents said they disagreed with the plan, we have now agreed to provide £3m to continue funding some of these services.
The future of individual services has yet to be decided but we will be working closely with operators to see if some can be run commercially. We will also continue to review the whole of the bus network, streamlining less well-used services by reducing their frequency and joining up other services to reduce duplication.
13:39, November 22, 2016
Mallorca has a reputation in line with sunshine holidaying but it does have another side, one that offers opportunities for coastal and hill walking. While you can hire a car, there also is an extensive public transport network. For getting about Palma de Mallorca, there are bus services operated by EMT. When it comes to travelling elsewhere on the island, there are interurban bus and train services operated by TIB. There also are heritage train services between Palma and Sóller operated by Ferrocarril de Sóller on whose website you can book journeys and there is that of Valsóller Services. All in all, this looks like an island well connected by public transport that has plenty of trails to be followed by hikers away from the summer season when temperatures surge too high.
13:41, November 17, 2016
Here is a list of British airlines:
13:40, November 17, 2016
Here is a listing of British airports:
13:46, July 21, 2016
It appears that Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way has been great for promoting its western coastline, so we now get Ireland’s Ancient East as the brand used to promote its antiquities. Just like it has for the former, Bus Éireann currently is advertising the part of its network that allows you to explore the latter. Here are links to timetables for those bus services:
2: Dublin Airport − Dublin − Arklow − Gorey − Enniscorthy − Wexford
4: Dublin − Carlow − Waterford − New Ross
40: Rosslare Europort − Waterford − Cork − Killarney − Kerry Airport − Tralee
65: Galway − Athlone − Cavan − Monaghan − Belfast
70: Galway − Athlone − Mullingar − Dundalk
100X: Dublin − Dublin Airport − Drogheda − Dundalk
109: Dublin − Navan − Kells − Cavan
111 Athboy – Trim – Batterstown – Dublin
111A: Athboy – Delvin − Granard − Cavan
111X Clonmellon – Delvin – Athboy – Trim – Dublin
115: Dublin – Kilcock – Enfield – Mullingar
133: Wicklow − Rathdrum − Avoca − Arklow
182: Drogheda − Ardee − Monaghan
215: Cloghroe – Blarney – Cork City Centre – Ballinlough – Mahon Point
245: Clonmel – Ardfinnan – Ballyporeen – Mitchelstown – Fermoy – Cork
366: Lismore − Cappoquin − Dungarvan − Waterford
370: Waterford − New Ross − Duncannon − Wellingtonbridge − Wexford
10:00, April 13, 2016
City of York Council also is having a consultation on services to which it wants to cut funding. All supported evening and Sunday services could see funding withdrawn and some services are affected too. Being a city, the effect may not be what it is in rural areas but it is a sign of the times in which we live.
08:21, March 28, 2016
Dorset is seeing services change or being withdrawn within the next few weeks. Many of the ones to stop running currently operate on just one day of the week, so I suppose the council got to questioning the need to retain these. However, one partly commercial service is being lost even if the council is stepping in to replace another one that is shortened.
09:34, March 10, 2016
Bus routes cut or merged as Kent County Council bids to save £400,000 on rural routes (article from KentOnline)