Not really. It was a High Wycombe to Oxford service that was cut back save for the placement journeys. Even then, Chinnor is closer to Wycombe than Oxford.
Surprised (as its part of a big company, Go Ahead), that drivers didn't do route training before the routes started
I think its more the fact it stays far away from Wycombe all day and is pretty much in OBC territory.
There wasn't a huge amount of time between Arriva's closure announcement and Carousel's takeover, and a number of Arriva drivers chose not to transfer across to Carousel. So I imagine their training priorities must be on the routes closer to home.
Both I and friends have seen drivers being trained on the One last week. As from today the Hemel services take a different route between Chesham and Bovingdon. This morning one driver got totally lost and ended up going most of the way to Wendover before returning to Chesham via Great Missenden and taking the old route to Hemel. I caught the bus on the return journey, 50 minutes late, and gave the driver directions into Chesham.
Now that is strange. I wonder if they moved some of the ex-Arriva drivers onto the flagship routes first to ensure that they run in some form at least.
That’s a fair assumption which is what I also thought but I guess it’s good people are using the 103. Slough to Windsor really does have tight competition.
Some journeys for school and college times are busy. It's not all deckers, there are 11 normal all-day buses with 6-7 Scania deckers, usually 4 E200s and sometimes one B7RLE. No Citaros for a while and no ADL E400s have, as far as I am aware, appeared on it at all.
Don't forget 3 way temporary traffic lights on marlow high street.
The changes to the one were instigated by Carousel, but we did work in partnership with Buckinghamshire Council to make it happen.
Not quite true I'm afraid. Whilst Buckinghamshire Council have part-funded some of the improvements, there are others which are wholly commercial.
Don’t try convince me 104 Sunday service is something not fully funded by Buckinghamshire.
The 104 is part funded, not fully funded. There are other Sunday improvements which are wholly commercial without funding from Buckinghamshire.
My original comment was made before the publication of the revised Red Group timetables. At the time it seemed resonable to assume that Bucks were seeking to cull another vehicle from the contract.
In the radio interview Luke Marion (Carousel managing director) did after the Arriva takeover he mentioned Wycombe-Beaconsfield via Penn as an aspiration, which would presumably replace the 31 and 577. Would assume the rest will be largely determined by how the routes taken over from Arriva have performed, wouldn't say there seem to be any particularly obvious other tweaks.
You mean the service that they increased the frequency of only recently and are running a boxing day service on?
Yes, the frequency is a bit of a stab in the dark, it's been hourly for decades
They have put some new fencing and gates which I have seen from passing, and the other building next to it, the company located there were moving out by the end of year. I believe they rented it from Go-Ahead (Carousel), who now wanted to use it themselves. Not sure if Cressex is still being considered if they are expanding the current facility, but I am sure someone will know more.
Well they have some competition from Reading Buses so it kind of makes sense.
No thanks!
Some of the Mercedes Benz Citaros have ended up as driver trainers at other depots.