Tuesday 18th November 2025 Oxfordshire County Council took the bold step of introducing a three month "Temporary Congestion Charge" for motorists who drive through six camera points in central Oxford at the end of October. I paid a visit to the city on Saturday to take a look. The six sites are shown on the... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 8th July 2025 The end of an era for two odd ball tendered bus routes beckons in a few weeks time. I took a ride on both routes last week to experience the passing of the old guard. Both upcoming changes are as a consequence of a county council re-tender exercise resulting in a... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 18th June 2024 Taking a ride on Pulhams Coaches route 801 has been on my to do list ever since seeing buses on the route pass through the delightful Bourton-on-the-Water when trying out the Robin DRT in November 2022. Spurred on by further suggestions to take a ride after contact from blog readers Chris... Continue Reading →
Saturday 4th May 2024 A brand new 850 space Park and Ride site in Oxfordshire has recently been constructed at a cost of £51 million but it won’t be used for "a number of years" because, according to media reports, there’s no funding for its access road and roundabout on the adjacent A40. Sounds bizarre?... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 5th December 2023 It’s not just Hertfordshire rolling out new bus routes as Bus Service Improvement Plan funds flow through local authority finances. Oxfordshire’s councillors have also had their crayons out adding country roads long devoid of buses back to the County's bus network. Three new Monday to Saturday bus routes with fairly limited... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 22nd February 2023 After Telford and Skelmersdale today's New Bus Route Week blog features new bus routes 24 and 25 in Bicester, Oxfordshire. Readers may recall I blogged about route 250 running between Bicester and Oxford via the huge new residential development at Heyford Park last August. The original plan had been to replace... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 16th August 2022 It looks as though Oxford’s failed Pick-Me-Up DRT operation is going to make a comeback; this time in deep rural Oxfordshire (cue emoji with raised eyebrows). It’s reported Oxfordshire County Council later this year is planning to replace hourly tendered route 250 which currently serves the expanding residential development known as... Continue Reading →
Friday 11th September 2020 The last time Oxfordshire funded a bus service was July 2016. That month the County Council scrapped its circa £4 million annual bus subsidy budget abandoning 118 tendered bus contracts to the fate of the commercial market - and turned 34 years of deregulation on its head. Deregulation, you my recall,... Continue Reading →
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