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It starts from Dundee on TuWTh There is also an evening Glw > Dundee trip every day, and a very early Dundee > Aberdeen trip on FSaSuM. Therefore one coach based at Glasgow (Inchinnan) and the other at Dundee.

…and the main competitor owns the bus station!

The management buyout was a brave move, and considering that was pre-pandemic, I think any realistic chance of turning it round will be very difficult in the current climate. There's every chance that existing staff could be enticed to other local employers due to the uncertainty, which would...

The usual ones are down at the Commy Games.

Inchinnan now run all the former Coatbridge routes, that weren’t up for tender, i.e. 64/164, 165, 312, 364, 374, as well as the ‘new’ routes 49, 124 & 153.

The 11 is now down to every 15 mins, with a number of cancellations each day, although not as many as when it was every 10 minutes. It is supposed to go back up to a 12 minute frequency when the schools return next month, which should coincide with the drivers returning from the Commonwealth Games.

That is correct. It is largely the difference between buying conventional diesel powered vehicles, and their zero emission equivalent. The Ember coaches would fall into the £180k category, based on their capacity.

Ember aren’t subsidised. There services are all fully commercial operations.

Five of the last eight departures (incl the last two) on the half hourly 585 service from Largs were cancelled this afternoon!

Looks very good. One little route anomaly i noticed is the ‘loop’ around Cellardyke & Anstruther is missing from the map.

Is that irregular? I’d have said it was a regular interval, although not clockface! Such frequencies are certainly becoming more common, and perhaps less of an issue, now that so many users use electronic means to check times of the next bus, or plan their journey.

The cancellations are usually processed first by the Traffic Area Office (TAO) staff - as there is no payment required, so I’d wait a few more working days, for the TAO plumber to work their magic, and get everything flushed through the pipe work!

See above comment from the First Glasgow thread. I’d imagine this process will be occurring at McGill’s too.

A lot of their current timetables will have been introduced using the short notice dispensation, so it’s quite possible that some of these registrations could actually just mean the current timetables will continue, but they have to do it through the full formal process.

Isn’t this the current employer of the (in)famous Rhys Hand?

All local bus service registrations are required to revert to their March 2020 position by 1st September, unless they have been varied/cancelled using the regular 70 day notice period, during the pandemic. Therefore, if operators wish to continue running timetables that were introduced using the...

I recall plenty of Atlanteans, Ailsas and Olympians that overheated in hot weather, back in the 80s/90s, so it’s not a new phenomenon!

That just requires some adjustment to the brightness settings.

Yes, they can be fully automated and selected from the control panel in the cab, exactly like ‘digital’ blinds. I’d be very surprised if the majority of TfL buses didn’t have that system in place.

Any business, regardless of the industry in which it functions, should know it’s ‘red/amber/green’ products or services. Those that don’t, are likely to struggle. They may use different terminology, but the basic principle remains.