Citistar 🚏🚌

Formerly Brinsea's favourite bus company, currently dormant. Bus related numbercrunching, paperwork & problem solving still available. Tel: [phone]

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Service 178 will be replaced by a new service 522 provided by First Bus from Sunday 2nd April. This is part of a wider set of changes to services which affect most services around the Norton Radstock area. (1/2)

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Some thoughts and analysis of the Westlocal scheme, now in full operation, where community groups have been given grants to procure their own bus services.
https://t.co/cHZnMg3eWZ

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Mind the gap: Third passenger hurt on Elizabeth line
https://t.co/bYbzh4w0F3

Elizabeth line tops list of train cancellations
https://t.co/Q1tSXutUrl

[Cllr Patrick Keating 🔶🇺🇦 @keatingpatrick]

All public transport in Britain should be like the Elizabeth Line.

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And yet come the first week of the closure when all the bus services to Frome, Bradford and Trowbridge go to pot. It'll all be "the f**king useless bus company's fault".

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I know we keep talking about no more road building and active travel, but the West Country was left in the dark ages of road network development. When major road closures happen, the whole network collapses because there's no sane diversion routes.
https://t.co/atfwXx9riH

[Citistar 🚏🚌 @CitistarBus]

Half a mile of road closure could stand to wreck reliability across a whole network of bus services as a slew of private and freight transport gets diverted. This is what i mean when i say we have weak regional leadership with no foresight or ambition.

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@seatsixtyone Doesn't matter which party wins, the DFT is still in charge and therein lies the core problem.

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Interesting noises from the jungle drums this morning. Apparently a nearby company are publicly talking about their two new bus services despite the purdah laws preventing such announcements of local authority supported services.

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This weekend is Glastonbury Festival, which means we'll soon have the annual tedious Twitter moaning by some "industry leaders" about the vehicles running a certain service down there, despite the fact that it's probably the best managed and most effective service at the event.

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This is prescient, given that WECA are advocating interchanges and "mobility hubs" all over the region (actually just in Bristol, but details, details). I wonder where they're finding space to build these car parks, when we can't even sustain bus stop space in Midsomer Norton?

[BusAndTrainUser @BusAndTrainUser]

Wondering what on earth a ‘Mobility Hub’ is?

https://t.co/IwrvDTrmrr

[Citistar 🚏🚌 @CitistarBus]

British DRT with their expert "tech partners" keeps failing to deliver what somebody in a taxi office could do in their sleep. When will local government wake up to the fact that local knowledge is an asset which should be embraced?

[BusAndTrainUser @BusAndTrainUser]

If it’s Sunday, it must be another DRT blog.
They keep on coming.

https://t.co/sgUIgTbTdx

[Citistar 🚏🚌 @CitistarBus]

Here are some thoughts on the WestLocal project, particularly the much hyped new bus service around Paulton.

https://t.co/CAJTU5PuDG

[Citistar 🚏🚌 @CitistarBus]

@travelwestEng It is 0180BAC30976.

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RTI in Paulton is still displaying erroneous closure notices. @travelwesteng

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Link: https://t.co/LaFLdCOWIF

I can't help think there are a lot of civil servants delighted that they're getting to live out their fantasies of putting everything back to the way it was in their childhood. Heaven forbid the real world should come calling.

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Just looking at the latest changes being made around Bury, Rochdale and Wigan by Manchester Town Council. There's an awful lot of pointless renumbering of bus services going on, which are doing away with simple prefixed routes in favour of unintelligible three digit numbers.

[Citistar 🚏🚌 @CitistarBus]

DFT attempt to balance the books following the slump of peak rail fare purchases by "simplifying", which means pricing everybody out of the market all day long. Genius.

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

It's not looking good. This is London-Edinburgh for Monday. All these trains would have been £87 (refundable, with far greater flexibility) before the 'simpler fares' trial (remember to add £20 to the air fare for train London to Luton + £5 for tram from airport into Edinburgh):

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@travelwestEng Why is this displaying on the Paper Lane stop in Paulton when there is no disruption listed on your website or One Network?

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So the next time an (inevitably blue) politician starts banging on about "efficiency savings", they can look at their own departments before cutting local government funding yet again.

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So here's a fascinating thing. Short thread, i promise...

Somerset Council Bus Advisory Board from last week:
https://t.co/06W8wDikfC

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...is just out of touch with any reality. The fact remains that all the money being spent (wasted) by the DFT on administering this scheme would be far better dished out to the LTAs themselves to spend on actually getting more services running.