The next change to our region's bus services is a timetable change on Bluestar 1 from Monday 13th August. Not much is changing. According to Traveline, the only additions are one bus each way on weekdays between town and Chandlers Ford Asda, timed two to three minutes ahead of Xelabus X11, which is only running until Friday 24th August anyway. It's Bluestar's way of telling Xelabus not to get any ideas about trying to compete on their routes.
Bevois Valley has some roadworks from Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd August, which will mean diversions to First 7 and Unilink U6.
Regular users of Stagecoach will probably already know that they've rolled out their Stagecoach Smart card to their buses here in the South. It works in a similar way to The Key on Bluestar. Details of the tickets you can get as a smartcard on Stagecoach can be found here.
the s1 will not be running between them times
ReplyDeleteWell spotted! St Marys Road will only be closed 1900-0600 overnight, when the S1 doesn't run anyway. I'll remove it from the post.
ReplyDeleteI'm still getting the warning about the Xelabus website being dangerous to access.Not very helpful,or confidence inspiring really.
ReplyDeleteGiven all the forthcoming changes,perhaps they may like to consider their passengers who need to check information...that's if they still have any.
I have just passed the outbound Xelabus X11 in Bassett Avenue. It was empty as it was the previous two times I have seen it. I wonder why they are bothering? It is timed to run a few minutes behind a Bluestar 1 in any case?
ReplyDeleteI think they get lots of supermarket money to run the buses so they meet various planning obligations.Whether anyone uses them is by the way.Nice little earner just playing buses.
ReplyDeletemany be , but no tried bus drivers chasing their ass for 10 hours aday. nice easy wages ......good ah
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