Saturday 7th December 2024 As this fortnightly series moves ever closer towards its terminus today’s penultimate route 100 to be featured is Cheltenham’s Park and Ride operation. And if that sounds familiar, you’ve got good recall as I half featured the route back in June while on my 7-day All Line Rail Rover and stopped... Continue Reading →
Sunday 16th June 2024 I’d read about Gloucestershire Council’s plans to spend £33 million on a Transport Hub at Arle Court in Cheltenham, so while I was wandering around the country on my recent Rail Rover I stopped off to take a look. Don’t be misled by any hype surrounding the term ‘Transport Hub”. Basically... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 7th May 2024 There are some great examples of community organised bus routes around the country. Perhaps most famous are DalesBus and MoorsBus where volunteers oversee bus networks serving the two National Parks (Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors) with financial contributions and sponsorship from local businesses as well as support from local authorities.... Continue Reading →
Sunday 23rd July 2023 DRT aficionado blog readers will recall my ride on Gloucestershire’s Robin branded scheme soon after it was introduced last October - the one when I was only the third passenger after two weeks of operation and took a trip from the village of Windrush to the Cotswolds’ tourist favourite of Bourton-on-the-Water,... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 8th November 2022 It's time for another new DRT try out. This one's in Gloucestershire where £1.35 million from the DfT’s Rural Mobility Fund is paying for two schemes to operate in the county for a two year trial. One is in the southern part of the Forest of Dean... ... and the other... Continue Reading →
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