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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.
Here is a list of British airlines:
British Airways
bmi
bmibaby
Flybe
EasyJet
Jet2
Air Southwest
Loganair
Airtask
Isles of Scilly Travel
Here is a listing of British airports:
Aberdeen
Barra
Benbecula
Birmingham
Bristol
Campbeltown
Cardiff
Dundee
East Midlands
Edinburgh
Farnborough
Glasgow
Inverness
Islay
London City
Kirkwall
Liverpool
London Gatwick
London Heathrow
London Luton
London Stansted
Manchester
Newcastle
Newquay
Southampton
Stornoway
Sumburgh
Tiree
Wick
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
72: Limerick − Birr − Athlone
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
163: Drogheda − Donore
182: Drogheda − Ardee − Monaghan
190: Drogheda − Navan − Trim
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
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.
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.
Bus routes cut or merged as Kent County Council bids to save £400,000 on rural routes (article from KentOnline)
Derbyshire County Council is proposing the abolition of their subsidised bus network like what has happened in Cumbria. This is planned for October 2017 and there is a consultation ongoing until 2016-04-24. It sounds short-sighted and I already have made my views known. It helps also that this is a survey that is easy to complete.
Reading about Canadian explorations raised hopes more for my not needing a car than those south of its border with the U.S.A. It still is a big country, so service frequencies are not like we know in the U.K. Even so, I am collecting up some websites that help with such journey planning in case they help. Again, many are bus and train companies, but there are other helpful portals on the list too.
Banff Airporter
Barrie Transit
BC Transit
Brampton Transit
Brewster Travel
Burlington Transit
Coach Canada
DRL
Durham Region Transit
Exo
GOTransit
Grand River Transit
Greyhound
Guelph Transit
HSR
Keewatin Railway Company
Marine Atlantic
Maritime Bus
Metrobus
Metrolinx
Milton Transit
MiWay
Niagara Falls Transit
Newfoundland & Labrador Local Transportation
Oakville Transit
OC Transpo
Ontario Northland
Orangeville Transit
Orléans Express
Peterborough Transit
Red Arrow
St. Catherine’s Transit Commission
Toronto Transit Commission
TransLink
Triplinx
Union Pearson Express
VIA Rail
York Region Transit
The start of 2016 is set to see these bus service changes in Cheshire:
2016-01-20
Service 9/9A (Routemaster Buses)
Service reverts to the previous route.
2016-01-16
Service 8: (Routemaster Buses) Crewe – Wistaston
Commercial service withdrawn.
2016-01-11
Service 20 (Routemaster Buses) Crewe – Ruskin Road – Kingsway – Beech Drive
Route and timetable revised.
2016-01-04
Service 8 (Routemaster Buses) Crewe – Wistaston
New Monday to Saturday commercial service to replace withdrawn Arriva service 8.
Service 9, 9A (Routemaster Buses)
Timetable and route revised to link with new Routemaster 8 service.
Service C84 (Routemaster Buses) Chester – Crewe
New commercial service part replacing withdrawn Arriva 84 journeys to/from Chester.
2016-01-03
Manchester Bridge, Crewe roadworks from 3 January to 6 April. D&G service 8, 8A will run to a revised timetable and will operate in a clockwise direction around the Sydney and Elm Drive estates.
2016-01-02
Service 8 (Arriva) Crewe – Beech Drive – Crewe
Service withdrawn
Service 8 (D&G Bus) Crewe – Beech Drive – Crewe
New Monday to Friday commercial service to part replace withdrawn Arriva service 8.