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Post by Username on Aug 4, 2022 21:32:08 GMT 1
Just spoke to Team Pennine and asked them if they will be running some services from CT Plus and they said they're currently discussing it with WYCA. So the routes are currently unknown.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Aug 4, 2022 21:32:16 GMT 1
HCT Group notified the Combined Authority that its CT Plus operation in West Yorkshire is to cease running buses by 1700 on Friday 5 August.
The following routes are affected:
30 Horsforth-Horsforth Vale-Pudsey 61 61A St James's Hospital-Hunslet-John Charles Stadium 81 81A Leeds City Centre-Old Farnley-Pudsey 341 Huddersfield-Almondbury-Stocksmoor 354 355 Huddersfield-Netherton-South Crosland 374 375 Huddersfield-Dalton 377 378 Huddersfield-Marsh-Mount
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Post by Username on Aug 4, 2022 21:33:47 GMT 1
HCT Group notified the Combined Authority that its CT Plus operation in West Yorkshire is to cease running buses by 1700 on Friday 5 August. The following routes are affected: 30 Horsforth-Horsforth Vale-Pudsey 61 61A St James's Hospital-Hunslet-John Charles Stadium 81 81A Leeds City Centre-Old Farnley-Pudsey 341 Huddersfield-Almondbury-Stocksmoor 354 355 Huddersfield-Netherton-South Crosland 374 375 Huddersfield-Dalton 377 378 Huddersfield-Marsh-Mount I wonder if 30 is a good option for TLC Travel, since they already run the 205 close by and the service runs quite close to Bradford.
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 4, 2022 21:40:35 GMT 1
HCT Group notified the Combined Authority that its CT Plus operation in West Yorkshire is to cease running buses by 1700 on Friday 5 August. The following routes are affected: 30 Horsforth-Horsforth Vale-Pudsey 61 61A St James's Hospital-Hunslet-John Charles Stadium 81 81A Leeds City Centre-Old Farnley-Pudsey 341 Huddersfield-Almondbury-Stocksmoor 354 355 Huddersfield-Netherton-South Crosland 374 375 Huddersfield-Dalton 377 378 Huddersfield-Marsh-Mount I wonder if 30 is a good option for TLC Travel, since they already run the 205 close by and the service runs quite close to Bradford. it could. 30 may also either revert back to Fourway or even go to squarepeg to tie in with their Horsforth routes.
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Post by kendall17 on Aug 5, 2022 0:15:03 GMT 1
I wonder if 30 is a good option for TLC Travel, since they already run the 205 close by and the service runs quite close to Bradford. it could. 30 may also either revert back to Fourway or even go to squarepeg to tie in with their Horsforth routes. So anyone then?
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Post by Username on Aug 5, 2022 9:22:15 GMT 1
Just spoke to Team Pennine and asked them if they will be running some services from CT Plus and they said they're currently discussing it with WYCA. So the routes are currently unknown. They have currently made this public and have put it on their facebook page that they are welcoming collegues from CT Plus.
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Post by Tom on Aug 5, 2022 12:22:50 GMT 1
Wonder what's going to be in place for the Access Bus then? CT Plus still run some if I am not mistaken? Metro already said to me they weren't running at full capacity as it was
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Post by Tom on Aug 5, 2022 12:25:17 GMT 1
it could. 30 may also either revert back to Fourway or even go to squarepeg to tie in with their Horsforth routes. So anyone then? Guess the issue at the moment is seeing who is physically able to operate it, or willing, some tendered evening journeys on routes like 118/118A not running due to Metro not being able to get an operator for them. I suppose in an emergency situation like this, there might be more willing to, but still. Leeds being SquarePeg makes sense but again, have they got the capacity?
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 5, 2022 13:43:22 GMT 1
Wonder what's going to be in place for the Access Bus then? CT Plus still run some if I am not mistaken? Metro already said to me they weren't running at full capacity as it was CT Plus run the AccessBus in Leeds and Wakefield
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 5, 2022 17:30:58 GMT 1
Confirmed by CT Plus that Administators will be coming in. This is in the latest statement. No services been covered as yet with the exception of the 113 Mid Yorks shuttle bus.
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Post by dennisthemenace504 on Aug 5, 2022 18:23:26 GMT 1
Wonder what's going to be in place for the Access Bus then? CT Plus still run some if I am not mistaken? Metro already said to me they weren't running at full capacity as it was CT Plus run the AccessBus in Leeds and Wakefield AccessBus Leeds and Wakefield are running out of TLC from tomorrow. AccessBus drivers employed by CT Plus tupe over to TLC
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 5, 2022 18:53:09 GMT 1
This will be the first time in history that all 5 districts AccessBus services are run by the same operator
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Aug 6, 2022 13:34:38 GMT 1
Please can i ask if its the entire HCT company that`s going to close down or just the Yorkshire and Guernsey?. I know that HCT have operations in Manchester and Bristol and possibly other towns and cities. What i mean is is the whole HCT company going ( London Ash Grove etc ). Just Yorkshire I think. Also Manchester operations were ceased around 2020. Indeed, I have seen nothing about any other areas of the country affected. Manchester did indeed close in 2020 like you say.
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 6, 2022 14:31:52 GMT 1
Please can i ask if its the entire HCT company that`s going to close down or just the Yorkshire and Guernsey?. I know that HCT have operations in Manchester and Bristol and possibly other towns and cities. What i mean is is the whole HCT company going ( London Ash Grove etc ). it's just the Yorkshire operations. Looks like been in a financially bad way for quite a while according to the statement issued yesterday
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Post by joseph on Aug 7, 2022 8:03:18 GMT 1
Could be an ideal opportunity for WYCA to get rid of all these routes if it means more important evening and Sunday journeys in busy urban areas can be saved. Beeston residents for example have seen Saturday late evening journeys cut to hourly, and I've noticed the 40 is hourly on an evening as well. Yes there are other services on many parts of these routes, but for example the 40 and 19 aren't very well spread apart from Leeds, and the 1/75 have a roughly 20 to 40 minute frequency combined from Leeds which isn't ideal so I'd rather the WYCA spent this cash on replacing these journeys, or stopping any future cuts to busy urban routes.
A striking example of recent cuts to frequency is Morley, it's already seen it's late evening journeys to a large part of the town cut to hourly (Tingley loop) and the town itself only has a half hourly service on direct journeys to/from Leeds, with an hourly less direct Arriva route thrown in, 3 buses itself for a massive town isn't that great, how long before one of these services is cut on an evening? That would be disaster for such a huge town with so called strong public transport links to it's nearest city. You get people from South Leeds going up to Morley for a night out, many from Morley come the other way (Beeston pub run) and on to Leeds too, taxi's are already struggling so I think having one less bus won't exactly help either lol.
The 61 and 61A don't need covering as they already have the DRT bus, the 81 and 81A are both within walking distance of other services for most of the route, sections involving an uphill/downhill or long walk to the nearest bus could be covered by extending the 80 from Owlcoates to Troydale and from Old Farnley via the existing 81 route to Wortley where it would then do a loop back to Old Farnley via the 42 route with just one extra bus needed keeping it's existing number of journeys with a slightly earlier start and later finish about an hour later than the current last journey. I suspect many of the Huddersfield services are close to other routes, or in the case of the 341 could be covered by extending/diverting routes, e.g. the 911 or a diversion into Stocksmoor on the D2/3 services which pass Thunder Bridge, Stocksmoor also has a train as well so that won't be cut off anyway.
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Post by Username on Aug 7, 2022 9:18:26 GMT 1
Could be an ideal opportunity for WYCA to get rid of all these routes if it means more important evening and Sunday journeys in busy urban areas can be saved. Beeston residents for example have seen Saturday late evening journeys cut to hourly, and I've noticed the 40 is hourly on an evening as well. Yes there are other services on many parts of these routes, but for example the 40 and 19 aren't very well spread apart from Leeds, and the 1/75 have a roughly 20 to 40 minute frequency combined from Leeds which isn't ideal so I'd rather the WYCA spent this cash on replacing these journeys, or stopping any future cuts to busy urban routes. A striking example of recent cuts to frequency is Morley, it's already seen it's late evening journeys to a large part of the town cut to hourly (Tingley loop) and the town itself only has a half hourly service on direct journeys to/from Leeds, with an hourly less direct Arriva route thrown in, 3 buses itself for a massive town isn't that great, how long before one of these services is cut on an evening? That would be disaster for such a huge town with so called strong public transport links to it's nearest city. You get people from South Leeds going up to Morley for a night out, many from Morley come the other way (Beeston pub run) and on to Leeds too, taxi's are already struggling so I think having one less bus won't exactly help either lol. The 61 and 61A don't need covering as they already have the DRT bus, the 81 and 81A are both within walking distance of other services for most of the route, sections involving an uphill/downhill or long walk to the nearest bus could be covered by extending the 80 from Owlcoates to Troydale and from Old Farnley via the existing 81 route to Wortley where it would then do a loop back to Old Farnley via the 42 route with just one extra bus needed keeping it's existing number of journeys with a slightly earlier start and later finish about an hour later than the current last journey. I suspect many of the Huddersfield services are close to other routes, or in the case of the 341 could be covered by extending/diverting routes, e.g. the 911 or a diversion into Stocksmoor on the D2/3 services which pass Thunder Bridge, Stocksmoor also has a train as well so that won't be cut off anyway. The Huddersfield services are on contract to WYCA so I do believe that they would end up being covered, especially 377/8 those are one of the most busy services with CT Plus.
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Post by Username on Aug 7, 2022 9:19:34 GMT 1
Could be an ideal opportunity for WYCA to get rid of all these routes if it means more important evening and Sunday journeys in busy urban areas can be saved. Beeston residents for example have seen Saturday late evening journeys cut to hourly, and I've noticed the 40 is hourly on an evening as well. Yes there are other services on many parts of these routes, but for example the 40 and 19 aren't very well spread apart from Leeds, and the 1/75 have a roughly 20 to 40 minute frequency combined from Leeds which isn't ideal so I'd rather the WYCA spent this cash on replacing these journeys, or stopping any future cuts to busy urban routes. A striking example of recent cuts to frequency is Morley, it's already seen it's late evening journeys to a large part of the town cut to hourly (Tingley loop) and the town itself only has a half hourly service on direct journeys to/from Leeds, with an hourly less direct Arriva route thrown in, 3 buses itself for a massive town isn't that great, how long before one of these services is cut on an evening? That would be disaster for such a huge town with so called strong public transport links to it's nearest city. You get people from South Leeds going up to Morley for a night out, many from Morley come the other way (Beeston pub run) and on to Leeds too, taxi's are already struggling so I think having one less bus won't exactly help either lol. The 61 and 61A don't need covering as they already have the DRT bus, the 81 and 81A are both within walking distance of other services for most of the route, sections involving an uphill/downhill or long walk to the nearest bus could be covered by extending the 80 from Owlcoates to Troydale and from Old Farnley via the existing 81 route to Wortley where it would then do a loop back to Old Farnley via the 42 route with just one extra bus needed keeping it's existing number of journeys with a slightly earlier start and later finish about an hour later than the current last journey. I suspect many of the Huddersfield services are close to other routes, or in the case of the 341 could be covered by extending/diverting routes, e.g. the 911 or a diversion into Stocksmoor on the D2/3 services which pass Thunder Bridge, Stocksmoor also has a train as well so that won't be cut off anyway. The Huddersfield services are on contract to WYCA so I do believe that they would end up being covered, especially 377/8 those are one of the most busy services with CT Plus. Also it's not really all about walking consider the disabled or the elderly who might not be able to walk.
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 7, 2022 10:28:32 GMT 1
Could be an ideal opportunity for WYCA to get rid of all these routes if it means more important evening and Sunday journeys in busy urban areas can be saved. Beeston residents for example have seen Saturday late evening journeys cut to hourly, and I've noticed the 40 is hourly on an evening as well. Yes there are other services on many parts of these routes, but for example the 40 and 19 aren't very well spread apart from Leeds, and the 1/75 have a roughly 20 to 40 minute frequency combined from Leeds which isn't ideal so I'd rather the WYCA spent this cash on replacing these journeys, or stopping any future cuts to busy urban routes. A striking example of recent cuts to frequency is Morley, it's already seen it's late evening journeys to a large part of the town cut to hourly (Tingley loop) and the town itself only has a half hourly service on direct journeys to/from Leeds, with an hourly less direct Arriva route thrown in, 3 buses itself for a massive town isn't that great, how long before one of these services is cut on an evening? That would be disaster for such a huge town with so called strong public transport links to it's nearest city. You get people from South Leeds going up to Morley for a night out, many from Morley come the other way (Beeston pub run) and on to Leeds too, taxi's are already struggling so I think having one less bus won't exactly help either lol. The 61 and 61A don't need covering as they already have the DRT bus, the 81 and 81A are both within walking distance of other services for most of the route, sections involving an uphill/downhill or long walk to the nearest bus could be covered by extending the 80 from Owlcoates to Troydale and from Old Farnley via the existing 81 route to Wortley where it would then do a loop back to Old Farnley via the 42 route with just one extra bus needed keeping it's existing number of journeys with a slightly earlier start and later finish about an hour later than the current last journey. I suspect many of the Huddersfield services are close to other routes, or in the case of the 341 could be covered by extending/diverting routes, e.g. the 911 or a diversion into Stocksmoor on the D2/3 services which pass Thunder Bridge, Stocksmoor also has a train as well so that won't be cut off anyway. what's with the obsession with Leeds; other areas have had massive cuts over the years, surely everyone other areas deserve to have their bus network to be built back up.
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Post by joseph on Aug 7, 2022 14:38:10 GMT 1
Could be an ideal opportunity for WYCA to get rid of all these routes if it means more important evening and Sunday journeys in busy urban areas can be saved. Beeston residents for example have seen Saturday late evening journeys cut to hourly, and I've noticed the 40 is hourly on an evening as well. Yes there are other services on many parts of these routes, but for example the 40 and 19 aren't very well spread apart from Leeds, and the 1/75 have a roughly 20 to 40 minute frequency combined from Leeds which isn't ideal so I'd rather the WYCA spent this cash on replacing these journeys, or stopping any future cuts to busy urban routes. A striking example of recent cuts to frequency is Morley, it's already seen it's late evening journeys to a large part of the town cut to hourly (Tingley loop) and the town itself only has a half hourly service on direct journeys to/from Leeds, with an hourly less direct Arriva route thrown in, 3 buses itself for a massive town isn't that great, how long before one of these services is cut on an evening? That would be disaster for such a huge town with so called strong public transport links to it's nearest city. You get people from South Leeds going up to Morley for a night out, many from Morley come the other way (Beeston pub run) and on to Leeds too, taxi's are already struggling so I think having one less bus won't exactly help either lol. The 61 and 61A don't need covering as they already have the DRT bus, the 81 and 81A are both within walking distance of other services for most of the route, sections involving an uphill/downhill or long walk to the nearest bus could be covered by extending the 80 from Owlcoates to Troydale and from Old Farnley via the existing 81 route to Wortley where it would then do a loop back to Old Farnley via the 42 route with just one extra bus needed keeping it's existing number of journeys with a slightly earlier start and later finish about an hour later than the current last journey. I suspect many of the Huddersfield services are close to other routes, or in the case of the 341 could be covered by extending/diverting routes, e.g. the 911 or a diversion into Stocksmoor on the D2/3 services which pass Thunder Bridge, Stocksmoor also has a train as well so that won't be cut off anyway. what's with the obsession with Leeds; other areas have had massive cuts over the years, surely everyone other areas deserve to have their bus network to be built back up. I have been fair in insisting the Leeds routes should also be axed and covered by other services diverting or not covered if too near another route. Busy urban journeys that don't quite make a profit shouldn't see their service cut with no chance of subsidy for a replacement journey when subsidy is spent on services that are a lot less busy. Sorry to say but we are in an era now where bus services are a lot more expensive to run, I think those carrying the least must be cut in order to save those carrying more, but not quite making the profit mark. Are we really going to turn into South Yorkshire what has seen massive cuts to it's late night network in urban areas?
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 7, 2022 16:30:47 GMT 1
what's with the obsession with Leeds; other areas have had massive cuts over the years, surely everyone other areas deserve to have their bus network to be built back up. I have been fair in insisting the Leeds routes should also be axed and covered by other services diverting or not covered if too near another route. Busy urban journeys that don't quite make a profit shouldn't see their service cut with no chance of subsidy for a replacement journey when subsidy is spent on services that are a lot less busy. Sorry to say but we are in an era now where bus services are a lot more expensive to run, I think those carrying the least must be cut in order to save those carrying more, but not quite making the profit mark. Are we really going to turn into South Yorkshire what has seen massive cuts to it's late night network in urban areas? The late bus routes in West Yorks were only just starting up prior to the 2020 lockdowns. I've actually done some research and since around 2002 Wakefield & North Kirklees have lost 92 routes. When you look across Leeds, Bradford & Calderdale they're "lost" routes have still been covered. Yes parts of the 61/61A is covered by Flexibus but not all of it. Again the 81/81a is a tricky one to cover. The 30 can ve covered too but the problem is how quickly as it would depend on if it's put to ALL independents. Also the East Leeds Flexibus isn't a new idea it's just a tweakes to the MC1 that TLC ran. The 341, 377 & 378 will potential revert back to Team Pennine and the other 4 back to Stotts. I know people have been saying TLC have been looking to run them again but i can't see that happening given they can't even run the 259 to full timetable or run the ML2 some days.
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Post by joseph on Aug 7, 2022 18:50:33 GMT 1
I have been fair in insisting the Leeds routes should also be axed and covered by other services diverting or not covered if too near another route. Busy urban journeys that don't quite make a profit shouldn't see their service cut with no chance of subsidy for a replacement journey when subsidy is spent on services that are a lot less busy. Sorry to say but we are in an era now where bus services are a lot more expensive to run, I think those carrying the least must be cut in order to save those carrying more, but not quite making the profit mark. Are we really going to turn into South Yorkshire what has seen massive cuts to it's late night network in urban areas? The late bus routes in West Yorks were only just starting up prior to the 2020 lockdowns. I've actually done some research and since around 2002 Wakefield & North Kirklees have lost 92 routes. When you look across Leeds, Bradford & Calderdale they're "lost" routes have still been covered. Yes parts of the 61/61A is covered by Flexibus but not all of it. Again the 81/81a is a tricky one to cover. The 30 can ve covered too but the problem is how quickly as it would depend on if it's put to ALL independents. Also the East Leeds Flexibus isn't a new idea it's just a tweakes to the MC1 that TLC ran. The 341, 377 & 378 will potential revert back to Team Pennine and the other 4 back to Stotts. I know people have been saying TLC have been looking to run them again but i can't see that happening given they can't even run the 259 to full timetable or run the ML2 some days. We've seen far too many busy late evening journeys get cut in Leeds over the past year or two, service 5 now seen a significantly earlier finish than it used to, something like 10pm compared to after 11pm before, and it's now hourly past 7pm compared to it's previous half hourly service, the 51/2 have had their mid to late journeys on the Tingley loop cut to hourly Mon to Fri evenings, same too for service 1 throughout it's route on a Saturday from around 9pm and the 40 as well is hourly compared to half hourly just a few months ago each evening. Service 49 is another casualty of evening cuts running hourly compared to half hourly again just a few months ago. These are all well used main road/urban services serving many homes, the money spent on services with significantly fewer users should be spent saving evening journeys on much busier services, instead we'll easily see a situation where people won't trust what remains of evening services on these routes, instead turning to taxis. Regarding the 61/A, it's mostly covered by the DRT except the Hunslet to John Charles bit, but that's covered by other services up to West Grange Drive where the houses end more or less (86 and 46/7) so nobody will be left without a service up there. I've seen very few use the 61/A anyway, especially for John Charles.
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 7, 2022 21:10:34 GMT 1
The late bus routes in West Yorks were only just starting up prior to the 2020 lockdowns. I've actually done some research and since around 2002 Wakefield & North Kirklees have lost 92 routes. When you look across Leeds, Bradford & Calderdale they're "lost" routes have still been covered. Yes parts of the 61/61A is covered by Flexibus but not all of it. Again the 81/81a is a tricky one to cover. The 30 can ve covered too but the problem is how quickly as it would depend on if it's put to ALL independents. Also the East Leeds Flexibus isn't a new idea it's just a tweakes to the MC1 that TLC ran. The 341, 377 & 378 will potential revert back to Team Pennine and the other 4 back to Stotts. I know people have been saying TLC have been looking to run them again but i can't see that happening given they can't even run the 259 to full timetable or run the ML2 some days. We've seen far too many busy late evening journeys get cut in Leeds over the past year or two, service 5 now seen a significantly earlier finish than it used to, something like 10pm compared to after 11pm before, and it's now hourly past 7pm compared to it's previous half hourly service, the 51/2 have had their mid to late journeys on the Tingley loop cut to hourly Mon to Fri evenings, same too for service 1 throughout it's route on a Saturday from around 9pm and the 40 as well is hourly compared to half hourly just a few months ago each evening. Service 49 is another casualty of evening cuts running hourly compared to half hourly again just a few months ago. These are all well used main road/urban services serving many homes, the money spent on services with significantly fewer users should be spent saving evening journeys on much busier services, instead we'll easily see a situation where people won't trust what remains of evening services on these routes, instead turning to taxis. Regarding the 61/A, it's mostly covered by the DRT except the Hunslet to John Charles bit, but that's covered by other services up to West Grange Drive where the houses end more or less (86 and 46/7) so nobody will be left without a service up there. I've seen very few use the 61/A anyway, especially for John Charles. Have you stopped to think of why those particular routes you've listed having had later trips reduced might be; usually delayed & cancelled due to vandlism. The routes you've also listed had been mentioned by First has been temporary measures due to staffing; Arriva have done the same with this last service change. Who knows some of the staff from the CT Plus depots may join First & Arriva which may increase staffing to the levels we can see the late trips returning. The Parts of Morley to Tingley Mills is covered by Arriva's 425/425A/427. You've also got to factor in that at the moment there's also the Gas works happening again at Scotchman Lane which has narrowd down the turning 51 & 52 take heading towards Morley Asda & Tingley Mills.
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Post by basher37 on Aug 7, 2022 22:26:13 GMT 1
The late bus routes in West Yorks were only just starting up prior to the 2020 lockdowns. I've actually done some research and since around 2002 Wakefield & North Kirklees have lost 92 routes. When you look across Leeds, Bradford & Calderdale they're "lost" routes have still been covered. Yes parts of the 61/61A is covered by Flexibus but not all of it. Again the 81/81a is a tricky one to cover. The 30 can ve covered too but the problem is how quickly as it would depend on if it's put to ALL independents. Also the East Leeds Flexibus isn't a new idea it's just a tweakes to the MC1 that TLC ran. The 341, 377 & 378 will potential revert back to Team Pennine and the other 4 back to Stotts. I know people have been saying TLC have been looking to run them again but i can't see that happening given they can't even run the 259 to full timetable or run the ML2 some days. We've seen far too many busy late evening journeys get cut in Leeds over the past year or two, service 5 now seen a significantly earlier finish than it used to, something like 10pm compared to after 11pm before, and it's now hourly past 7pm compared to it's previous half hourly service, the 51/2 have had their mid to late journeys on the Tingley loop cut to hourly Mon to Fri evenings, same too for service 1 throughout it's route on a Saturday from around 9pm and the 40 as well is hourly compared to half hourly just a few months ago each evening. Service 49 is another casualty of evening cuts running hourly compared to half hourly again just a few months ago. These are all well used main road/urban services serving many homes, the money spent on services with significantly fewer users should be spent saving evening journeys on much busier services, instead we'll easily see a situation where people won't trust what remains of evening services on these routes, instead turning to taxis. Regarding the 61/A, it's mostly covered by the DRT except the Hunslet to John Charles bit, but that's covered by other services up to West Grange Drive where the houses end more or less (86 and 46/7) so nobody will be left without a service up there. I've seen very few use the 61/A anyway, especially for John Charles. 86 doesn’t touch West Granges,it does Tunstall Road,Beza Street,Church Street,Balm Road,turns left onto Midland Raid then Pepper Road.
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 7, 2022 23:39:08 GMT 1
We've seen far too many busy late evening journeys get cut in Leeds over the past year or two, service 5 now seen a significantly earlier finish than it used to, something like 10pm compared to after 11pm before, and it's now hourly past 7pm compared to it's previous half hourly service, the 51/2 have had their mid to late journeys on the Tingley loop cut to hourly Mon to Fri evenings, same too for service 1 throughout it's route on a Saturday from around 9pm and the 40 as well is hourly compared to half hourly just a few months ago each evening. Service 49 is another casualty of evening cuts running hourly compared to half hourly again just a few months ago. These are all well used main road/urban services serving many homes, the money spent on services with significantly fewer users should be spent saving evening journeys on much busier services, instead we'll easily see a situation where people won't trust what remains of evening services on these routes, instead turning to taxis. Regarding the 61/A, it's mostly covered by the DRT except the Hunslet to John Charles bit, but that's covered by other services up to West Grange Drive where the houses end more or less (86 and 46/7) so nobody will be left without a service up there. I've seen very few use the 61/A anyway, especially for John Charles. 86 doesn’t touch West Granges,it does Tunstall Road,Beza Street,Church Street,Balm Road,turns left onto Midland Raid then Pepper Road. true. It's the 118A that serves John Charles Stadium apart from 61/61A.
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Post by guyarab on Aug 8, 2022 8:12:37 GMT 1
CT Plus (Yorkshire) failed to fulfil its 113 Hospitals Shuttle service on Friday. I didn’t see the 14:13 ex-Dewsbury hospital run and the 15:13 was run by Arriva’s 1003, but some seven minutes late, worrying for one trainee nurse trying to get home to Pontefract, not knowing the area in which she waited and little money for fares if using other services.
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