My experience as a not infrequent off peak traveller on BS 1 is that no increase in off peak frequency is justified. I can't comment on peak loadings. However a PVR increase of 5 suggests a 10 minute frequency.
Is something you've definitely heard?
Like you, I would have thought that maintaining the 15 minute frequency through the peak say +2 PVR, maybe plus an extra for the Peter Symonds peak flows should be sufficient.
To answer your questions:
Poole bus station doesn't have public toilets (closed due to antisocial issues), however there are some on the upper level of the adjacent shopping centre, so only a 2-3 minute walk away.
Plus 1251 & 1252, E400 Cities
You're mostly right, but there's a bit more to it.
Ah, I never knew the 200x were ex Uni-link vehicles. I remember these were out and about with Bluestar quite recently, mostly on the 10/13/14/20 around late 2023 and early 2024. Some were in Southern Vectis livery so presumably spent time over thre.
No idea about the timetable but as a student I can tell you lectures start at xx00 and end xx45 all day. However there will be bigger flows into the uni in the morning and out in the afternoon as most people will have multiple lectures and stay on campus between them.
Indeed it did, until 2014. My only picture of it in that time shows the branding very poorly, but there are better images available on Flickr if you search them out - including from when it was numbered 1035 instead of 1091, which I'd forgotten all about. I never saw it on a Uni-link route in that period, only Bluestar.
The history of that batch is pretty confusing, and some of them have spent three separate spells in Southampton - on Uni-link from new until 2013, then again from 2018 to 2019 to facilitate the introduction of route 7, then from 2023 to present/withdrawal following First pulling out. The Southern Vectis livery dates from the time in between the two most recent occurrences, with the 2013-2018 gap being spent with Morebus. A few examples also worked in Plymouth and Swindon at different times, and just to make things even more complicated 2009 has wound up back with Morebus again!
Morebus has a pretty good Tap On, Tap Off system which ensures each person doesn't pay more than the cost of a one-person day ticket
The Swanage Bus Station (its bus stops outside the heritage railway station) toilets are on the railway station platform. To access them you have to go through the booking hall and onto the platform. They have been closed from time to time due to serviceability issues (blocked drains). There are public toilets about 200 yards away which are more reliable.
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You were lucky if the 50 was only ten minutes late. That is the mis-alignment between a 30 minute bus headway and a 20 minute ferry service and the 50 timetable still hasn't been adjusted to account for this.
Seems a strange decision.
A decision taken by the ferry company who own the road. The public highway ends at Knoll Beach. It is highly likely this entire stretch of road will become a toll road next year. The ferry company is currently awaiting government approval.
Ah ok, I'd imagine the road would have been owned by the council but evidently not. Did Morebus try to negotiate?
Yes they did, with no success.
Surely not a toll for the road as well as a charge for the ferry?!
That would essentially require the whole company livery and identity to be changed, as buses work between Bomo and Poole interchangeably. That’s very unlikely to be something that Go Ahead consider to be worthwhile, it would also mean they were effectively adopting the livery of another company who went out of business (don’t forget the GSC didn’t buy out Yellow Buses, they simply started more routes to replace their services). The latter issue might also mean that there is a reluctance to do a heritage livery, which would otherwise be a nice touch, as again GSC don’t and never have owned the company.
