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Title: The personal cost of bus unreliability and cuts Post by: grahame on October 22, 2022, 08:48:46 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63345158
Quote Bus services have failed to recover following the lifting of pandemic restrictions and have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, BBC analysis suggests. Jon Kelly spent a week travelling on one typical route - the number 16 from Perth to Dundee - to find out what happens when the buses stop running. Story from Scotland, but I read online about Stagecoach issues on the Swindon to Chippenham service, Go-ahead problems in Salisbury and First Bus issues in their "West of England" area. So the no. 16 is not an individual case, but symptomatic of the whole bus industry - I have ned there the biggest three operators who provide any service in my home county (of Wiltshire), and for the past 9 months our local town bus, run b a smaller independent, has been running on one vehicle not 2. Title: Re: The personal cost of bus unreliability and cuts Post by: bobm on October 23, 2022, 08:03:29 Seeing as the service is mentioned here - Stagecoach have announced the 55 between Swindon and Chippenham will be reduced from four buses an hour to three on Mondays to Fridays from the end of the month.
The special journeys that go via New Road in Royal Wootton Bassett are withdrawn along with the 54 which runs between Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett via the Link Centre. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |