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Yes - of course. But I didn't say "Who even needs buses so late?" As Grand Wazoo says, there are far more people at work in the mornings than in the late evenings. It's as simple as that.

The idea that (where the demand is there) it’s better to run a bus half hourly than every 20 minutes, and that having a less frequent service is something passengers would prefer, is crazy. How do you get to work for a 6am start if there’s no bus at 5am? With statements like that, you can’t...

No - that's not the case, on the Ticketer system at least. The Tap Off Readers are programmed to only accept a tap off. If you touch one with a card that's not already tapped on prior, they will just beep and reject the touch.

Aldershot (37,000) - Stagecoach South

Hulleys ran out of money and went bust of course! I doubt planning for two changes date a year prevents minor changes to/for anything that crops up in the meantime.

Don't Reading's standard services/buses have cash vaults so the drivers don't handle cash anyway? Not required - they work offline.

Bought by Surrey CC, not contributed to! An incredible commitment (but a welcome one) - especially given the risks that became apparent with the hydrogen station at the depot over in neighbouring West Sussex.

The operator could (should) provide the extra resource required to run the advertised registered timetable until such time as the timetable is changed under the standard notice period.

Judging by the amount of loose trim and panel gaps evident on the member of the batch ADL themselves exhibited at the NEC, I wouldn’t hold my breath!

Buses between Shanklin and Ryde run every 15 minutes.

And have become slow and unreliable over the years as traffic has worsened. A quick look at bustimes.org for Thursday on the 1 shows gaps in service of 30 minutes and round trips taking over double the scheduled time - e.g. the 17.25 journey taking ~1hour 20 minutes to get round instead of the...

On ADL buses it can be set on either the door being open, or the handbrake being on.

Local singles are sold on the sightseeing services, link to the Needles Breezer fare table on bustimes.org below. They're not covered by the £2 fare cap, though! https://bustimes.org/fares/tariffs/2499504

I don't think buying and running 200 of them leaves much room for subjectivity and personal opinion vs. real life experience.

But what happens to them when the BSIP money runs out?

I think Romsey and Hythe are 14'6" so good for any bus, but certainly others, plus one in central Salisbury and also Sandown for Southern Vectis at 14'3" would point towards Go South Coast preferring lower height buses, so I wouldn't read anything into their new buses in relation to Brighton &...

The through-service-one-way, two-sections-the-other has been a feature of the 24/25/26 for years, including previous holders of the contract. It's the most efficient way of running the services without requiring an extra bus for very little benefit. The 24 runs through as a 24 from Piccadilly...

Abellio Surrey's 461T (Staines - Thorpe Park), started in 2015 as competitive venture against Sullivan Buses' long established 950 service. Started 27th June, finished on Day 2, on 28th June, never to run again. Short notice refusal of access to Staines Railway Station forecourt being the...

The PIS is fully specified by, arranged and looked after by TfGM.

Plenty of people on here saying the York ones (same type as Leicester) “don’t have heating” too - but they were toasty warm when I used them. Barring one bus that clearly had a fault.