The changes as consulted are positive generally.
Good to see information trickling through and thank you for sharing this and highlighting your web page as it updates. Still quite a few missing though for next week!
Williams are supplying vechiels and driver for the T4 is what i was told
That makes sense. The vehicles stay put each day, whereas if they were Celtic's own vehicles you would expect them to swap at least one each day. No doubt the drivers stay put too but they must work on each others vehicles, beyond my brain to work out how.
Excellent, thanks again. You seem to be the only source of good information.
I'm not always a fan of how Lloyds do things but this is excellent. It's a shame that you have had to do it, it should have been done by Powys Council or TFW (given the changes were largely done in collaboration with TFW). TFW and Welsh Councils incompetence never fails to surprise me.
That's excellent. Thank you. The maps make it very easy to visualise also
The theory is guaranteed connections but in reality it won't be. I've seen it happen far too often in Corwen and Dolgellau where it's meant to be guaranteed or seamless connections, but when the departure time comes the buses drive off and don't care to wait even 30 seconds for a late running bus. M&H always did it at Corwen, even if a late running bus was pulling into Corwen, they would still drive off infront of it rather than wait a minute incase of connecting passengers.
It used to be through journeys by both operators, I used to be the regular driver on the T12 when it launched.
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Are the existing vehicles being transferred to the new operators or are the Welsh Government providing new ones? If the latter, perhaps they're not ready yet or are 75 plate and can't run until tomorrow?
The existing vehicles are starting to be de-commissioned from the Stagecoach fleet today, thus the allocation of Scania's. The existing stock will be returned to Powys C.C. The new operators have acquired their own vehicles with new stock for the T4 on order for March.
The new contracts don't start until September 1st, so Stagecoach are running the T4 and X43 today also. The Traws vehicles are now in the process of being de-commissioned from the Stagecoach fleet so Scania's have been allocated. The '08' plate Solo has been at Merthyr for a while, one of three that went with the Fflecsi work when Brynmawr outstation closed.
Ah right it was tracking on the 1B yesterday and said 'Cwmbran depot' on it so guessed it transfered today
The Traveline information in Wales is always pretty poor - being inaccurate or out of date. I understand it is run from within TfW and not directly from the main UK Traveline organisation - which no doubt explains that.
I loath those schematic maps for bus services, i prefer the geographical maps, the schematic map feels kind of lazy way of doing maps for bus routes.
