All Change!

Many things have continued to occupy my time and leave me with none spare for blogging! Once again a random update post will have to suffice.

And so austerity finally lands in Gloucestershire!

Gloucestershire County Council has reviewed its supported bus network in the county and this time its serious! A picture of Dr Richard Beeching appears foremost in my mind but the general public seem to be almost entirely unaware of the scale of funding withdrawals heading their way.

The latest tendering round has come and gone and whilst we still have work for 9 buses, many of our longstanding routes will either be cut, combined, lost, renumbered or reduced.

The inevitable list is as follows: -

Gone are routes 23 227 254 256 261 263 264 267 and Y.

Combined are (8 8A 25) into revised routes 8 8A 8B and the 36 into a revised route 40.

Cut is the 230 from four journeys six days a week to 2 journeys on a Tuesday only!

Lost are routes 28 29 and 29A to Stagecoach who will renumber whats left as route 69.

Renumbered is the 63 to route 229 and 154 to X54.

This leaves routes 3 54 54A 127 128 129 131 pretty much unchanged except for a couple of 54A journeys becoming X54. There is also a new route 228 to partially compensate for the loss of the 23 and 256.

More fleet changes are sure to follow!