They might go back to paper adverts stuck which looked pretty awful IME when it happened previously
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The school children has already been dropped off at the time, only the driver and another member of staff, presumably the MyBus chaperone were on board.
A pretty horrific incident, and just goes to highlight how much of a risk it is driving a bus. Very little in the way of safety if it all goes wrong, no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple zones...Sadly a Keighley bus driver has received serious injuries today following a crash between a school bus and a tractor on the A629 Aire Valley Relief Road.
Residents speak of shock after horrific crash between school bus and tractor
A BUS driver has been seriously injured in a horror crash between a school bus and a tractor on a major road in the district.
The school children has already been dropped off at the time, only the driver and another member of staff, presumably the MyBus chaperone were on board
Someone was predictably very eager as is always the case on there and has already marked 1343 V209EBV as withdrawn on BusTimes
Going back to Burnley and Pendle days a half hourly limited stop service used to ruin between Heifer lane and Burnley using 2 buses, this was in the days when all fares were cash and no returns so every passenger had to pay.
Driving Colne to Skipton is virtually identical in time, running vie Barnoldswick or Earby, it surprised me but it is.
Seconded, I'd hope the more modern version of the fleet is more crashworthy.
It'd work as an hourly extension of the Witchway perhaps, but, yes, it's not viable on its own.
Burnley to Nelson on Mainline remains every 10 minutes. One of the current M3s is replaced by the new M6.
See I don't know why they did that, overcrowding is going to be even worse now.
Between Trawden and Colne?
No, on the core Mainline section to Nelson, because there'll now be Pendle Wizz traffic on it as well
The B10BLE is pretty robust, it must have been a big shunt into- presumably- the trailer.
The Solos have WiFi and USB chargers, the Stratas don't (however when it was announced Transdev had won the Pendleside routes, it specifically said brand new buses with WiFi and USB chargers will be introduced)I think with Rosso there were some bits worth buying but also a lot of tendered and marginal work, with the added downside of competition in Greater Manchester, and Transdev then added even more tenders. The best situation for Transdev might have been for them to go bust and then cherry pick the best routes a la Halton, but who knows how far off that might have been and whether someone else would have bought it first. Gaining a presence in Greater Manchester might yet pay off if they win some franchise contracts.
Team Pennine is just confusing to me. It doesn't really fit with the rest of Transdev, either geographically (I think it only has (edit) two routes which meet other Transdev services, and those only run once an hour) or in terms of the high quality relatively frequent trunk routes which are what Transdev are known for. It seems to be mostly tenders and scrappy hourly routes serving places First have deemed unprofitable - I would have thought it more a fit for someone like Centrebus than Transdev.
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Burnley April service changes are out:
Better buses in Burnley from 16 April
We're making some changes to our buses in Burnley from 16 April.www.transdevbus.co.uk
Contracts lost, we already knew.
Pendle Wizz withdrawn, will be replaced by an hourly Mainline service M6.
M3 reduced to hourly. (So basically one bus is diverted from Trawden to Skipton)
The 2 and 68 will be combined in a way, with the 2 running hourly through to Higherford and Colne and the half hourly frequency between Burnley and Nelson maintained by a new service 2A, which will also skip some stops in Nelson. It looks like with this change Barrowford will go from 3 buses per hour between the two routes to just one. Exact route is not specified other than serving Nelson Morrisons, I assume it will take the number 2 route through Barrowford to serve the college.
I notice they mention Wi-Fi and USB power for the 2 and 5, but not the 1,3 and 4. Does this tell us anything about which vehicles they are getting?
The loss of the 'fast' bus between Burnley and Colne will be a shame. The Pendle Wizz does this run about 15 minutes quicker than the Mainline services and must take up some of the demand with its double deckers.
Oh dear, I hope so too. Does this mean Transdev are short in terms of fleet too?
That was my suggestion, the X43 being extended fast. Either that or Transdev will lose passengers to Northern. The 280 should see an uptake in passengers too, as it will now be the fastest way to Preston I think.
There actually is enough vehicles as when those vehicles were purchased the X43 ran every 15 minutes before COVID
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This it the problem with route branded busses. It removes a lot of flexibility.
It all depends how much flexibility you need in the first place and the trade off of the value of branding v reduced flexibility.
And how strictly vehicles are kept to the route. Arriva have be known to refer to route promotion rather than route branding hence vehicles not being on the branded route which could have some merit as certainly I have experienced the interior branding of a Harrogate Route 7 vehicle attracted the attentions of most passengers when it was in use in place of one of Harrogate Electrics on a local route.
A whole topic in its own right, but we'd better not go OT.
