Councillors are keenly aware of the facts, and are also aware of having to manage with budgets that shrink year on year. On the other hand, many taxpayers seem blissfully unaware of how tight those budgets are and still object to contributing to them.
It would be better to have a 1 or 4 shuttling those roads that aren't being serviced anymore, while having the 31 run around the rest of Farley Hill. Lots of elderly residents and other residents complaining on social media that it is difficult for them to walk to the nearest bus stops for the 31. Sounds like what they did with the 23, forcing residents to walk when most are elderly. At least they changed that though, so hopefully they give that bit a rethink. Otherwise, I am excited to see the 31 run, but I think it will be a repeat of when the 28/29 were extended there about 10 years ago - reverted after a while. However, I'm all for bigger buses and more capacity in Farley Hill.
They actually have recently, and I don't think it was a good outcome! I have no idea why they had an inquiry or why they are still operating with a negative outcome, though.
Where's this from?
And UFU got withdrawn this morning, barely made it out the depot before one final breakdown. 25 years of running ALX400's in Luton is now over, unless LX04 FYN decides to make an unlikely appearance!
Every time I have been on the X5 it has been busy too!
Looks as if they expect passengers to switch to the competing Red Eagle service which by passes Aston Clinton saving up to 15 minutes on the end to end journey.
I completely agree. I don't have high hopes for this route, but hopefully, Red Eagle will use the month between the 500 starting and the X5 withdrawal to resolve the issues. At least Red Eagle is committed to running a route; Hemel has been neglecting it since they got it!
I have heard that all Red Eagle and Red Rose got for their public inquiries were fines.
I assume the baby MMCs might move elsewhere as a result?
That would be great if they did. Can finally see off the older E200s and Northfleet could potentially have some as well to replace their older buses as well. They would also do well on the 100 as well.
Would that be the mini MMCs as the normal length MMCs are due to go to Merseyside soon?
I'd suspect they may go back to Gillingham, where they were poached from in the first place after just three weeks service.
Disappointing that they don’t name the new operator - it always comes across a bit churlish. We’ve lost, someone else has won but you have to ask the council who!
They are fairly hot off the mark in telling you they have lost the contract, the registrations for 1st June don't go off until next week so they may not be in a position to do so yet (if the council have told them officially yet - stand still positions and sorting paperwork). Normally this sort of thing wouldn't be public for a couple of weeks yet even with the most communicative operators.
