Recent content by ThatOneGuy

Looks like it's been copy and pasted from the old Central Connect site without much thought. The Central Connect on the west Essex and Hertfordshire side is at least much more akin to whats been claimed, it would be wonderful to see that matched on the new acquisitions though, Norfolk and...

Re Suffolk One, I heard a rumour that Ipswich College and West Suffolk College in Bury were tendered together as one contract. First don't have much out towards Bury and beyond do they? So perhaps they were uncompetitive on that basis? Having looked at the Ipswich One network, some of the...

To be fair it may be with the news of the big investment in buses that they're still working out what can be retained and what is to be withdrawn. Changes to networks might influence that too. I know from other work that vinyl can be suprisingly expensive! I have seen on a few enthusiast...

Perhaps the owners comments are more ambition than reality but they clearly are trying. The vast improvement and development of the old Galleon network and the printed publicity on pre Go-Ahead takeover work are good examples, let alone the stabilisation of Waltham Abbey which for donkeys years...

As a general rule such things are not considered. Authorities ask for a daily price and thats it. The 51/52 aren't tendered. They look like direct award as many BSIP developments are.

The TMS notification of commercial operation was made to ECC prior to ECC awarding and signing the contract with First. It is a little baffling why an authority would then choose to spend several hundred thousand quid it doesn't need to, authorities are normally delighted to see contracts...

The 2X originally ran outside of the operating window of the 2 back when it extended to/from Leicester and ran more substantially than recent iterations. The withdrawal of the Nottinghamshire Network is down to operational difficulties related to depot, not financial performance, NCT have...

The contract required all vehicles to be wrapped and not to be used elsewhere...

Not a whole picture... there is a substantial volume of none ECC (Essex County Council) funded work which across the board will see a PVR increase by the end of Summer.

Not a TfL service but Essex County Council funded 418 runs from Loughton to Debden to Theydon Bois to Epping, serving all 4 stations with some journeys now continuing to North Weald mirroring the Central Lines past!

Not really a consultation process, more a statutory notification process, the dates for which are about right for this now becoming widespread knowledge. Councillors, MPs, stakeholder groups can disagree with the decision all they like but unless there is a big subsidy pot to fall back on or...

Nottingham has some 'half examples'. Routes start in the City Centre run out along a core corridor and then continue around to provide an outer ring around the west, north west, north, north east and east parts of the City. 25: City > Carlton then Mapperley > Daybrook > Arnold 35: City >...

Twice a day (once in each direction) it's possible to get from Melton Mowbray in the Midlands all the way to Norwich on the east coast with just a single same stop interchange in Peterborough via Vectares 47/47M service and the First Excel (B/C) service. About 5 hours each way with about 1 hour...

Some midi routes are being converted to deckers...

The last buses of the night terminate in Gotham normally and run empty back to Trent Bridge. Nothing unusual about it.