Sunday 23rd June 2024 If you'd told me ten years ago much of the rural parts of the counties of East Sussex and West Sussex would be served by a fleet of around 20 minibuses trundling around providing 'Demand Responsive Transport' for a couple of passengers an hour all being hailed as a rip roaring... Continue Reading →
Thursday 11th April 2024 I attended a fascinating and timely visit organised by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport to Metrobus’s Crawley bus garage on Tuesday. It was to hear more about the challenges the Company is facing with its pioneering introduction of liquid "green" hydrogen including commissioning what is destined to be “the... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 5th March 2024 I’ve recently caught up with the three latest additions to Britain’s burgeoning DRT landscape. They’re in West Berkshire, West Sussex and Derbyshire. West Berkshire’s scheme was launched on 15th January. There’s a rather cute home made video on YouTube explaining the background to it here featuring West Berkshire's Councillor Denis Gaines,... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 20th February 2024 Department for Transport funded Bus Service Improvement Plans (BSIPs) have helped launch a number of new bus route initiatives around the country. I’ve recently caught up with Hertfordshire’s latest addition to the network as well as a new arrival in West Sussex. As reported in recent blogs, Hertfordshire has been introducing... Continue Reading →
Sunday 3rd September 2023 West Sussex County Council’s Book-A-Bus DRT gained a second zone three weeks ago covering villages north of Petworth. It’s been given route number ‘98 Flex’ to compliment route 99 (south of Petworth) which I blogged about at the beginning of last month. 98 Flex is a fully flexible DRT funded by... Continue Reading →
Sunday 6th August 2023 Readers will know I cite the semi-fixed arrangements on long standing bus route 99 between Chichester and Petworth and route 101/102 between Devizes and Pewsey as examples of best practice in combining a timetable with times at fixed points with flexibility to serve hamlets and villages on a semi-flexible route in... Continue Reading →
Thursday 30th June 2022 Long term blog readers may recall I paid a visit to Wiltshire's very successful 'on-demand' rural bus route 101/102 running between Pewsey and Devizes back in April 2019. I was concerned to read recent reports Wiltshire County Council are consulting on changing this highly successful arrangement to an app based fully... Continue Reading →
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