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Post by Tom on Aug 8, 2022 10:27:41 GMT 1
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 That's good, thank you!
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Post by Tom on Aug 8, 2022 11:47:13 GMT 1
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. and 118A is only eve/sun only and isn't running as far as Leeds at the only to the White Rose due to driver shortages
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Post by Tom on Aug 8, 2022 11:50:35 GMT 1
There have been a few posts about whether these services need to be covered or whether there is sufficient service elsewhere. I can't speak for the Huddersfield services, but the 61/61A used to get fairly full at certain times, whether it's the same now I don't know, but there are a few areas that it covers that are not covered by other services, admittedly some other nearby services. But take the 81/81A for example, Leysholme has no other service and its a fair walk down the hill to Five Lane Ends, Fawcett Drive/Blue Hill Lane you could argue for the 4/42 but still, its a bit of a walk for some, and Troydale for example has no other service. It might not be too well used, but I would argue these needs to be maintained for people that need it, I use the 81/81A often as I can't walk far, so I can catch that to Infirmary Street and jump on the 444/446 other side of the road to get to Wakey easily.
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Post by dennisthemenace504 on Aug 8, 2022 12:02:03 GMT 1
Stotts won't take any of them on, an ex employee works there and has already asked them.
377/378 could be joined together and miss out Hospital and Kirkwood estate, by doing 377 to Tanyard Road, turn RIGHT onto Burfitts, to end, turn Left to serve flats and top part of Willwood, turn Left, then turn Right back onto Tanyard and back on route, maybe call it 377A or 376/379???
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Post by WYBS on Aug 8, 2022 14:49:45 GMT 1
I notice that a certain director/ manager left the company/ jumped ship just before all this happened. They now appear to be running a questionable operation in Blackpool/ London and various other places.
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Post by kendall17 on Aug 8, 2022 21:21:32 GMT 1
I notice that a certain director/ manager left the company/ jumped ship just before all this happened. They now appear to be running a questionable operation in Blackpool/ London and various other places. I suspect this post may draw the attention of the mods. The same director that left HCT group some 6months ago?
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Post by peteleeds on Aug 9, 2022 7:22:34 GMT 1
Pudsey councillor contacted first about diverting 14 to troydale and posted this response on his Facebook.
"*Update* CT Plus - Troydale Bus Service.
Thank you for your email Cllr Seary, Fully understand this request and our network team looked at this as soon as we heard the news. The immediate answer is that the current 14 doesn’t have the time to do this without impacting the rest of the service. Please be assured we’re in discussion with WYCA to look at all possible options where the short-notice withdrawal of CT Plus has affected residents."
Someone else responded who must work in industry with this
"The 14 has only got 10 minutes standing time on a 70 minute route in each direction and you would need 12 minutes to get it in and out of Troydale in both directions.
Tenders for the routes were up on Friday afternoon. See what happens."
So be interesting to see if anyone bids for the tenders
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Post by SF07 on Aug 10, 2022 17:07:53 GMT 1
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 10, 2022 21:06:58 GMT 1
Been while the Powell's division have seen 6, 61, 62 & 201 go to Stagecoach and X20 is going to Globe as of Monday 1th August 2022. From what i've read on-line it looks like a good few of the routes were due to changes operator in October.
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Post by peteleeds on Aug 24, 2022 19:45:03 GMT 1
Our local councillor has been pushing for a service to resume to troydale after the 81 ceased due to ct plus going into Administration. He's posted this update
"🚌Troydale Bus Service - Update
💬I’m continually talking to the combined authority regarding the situation Troydale residents are in and pushing for a service to resume as soon as possible.
Dear Cllr Seary I appreciate the issues and we are actively trying to find an operator to take over the service. Unfortunately this has proven difficult as all operators are all struggling with driver shortages so we have had very little interest. However we potentially have a short term solution from one operator, but this isn’t confirmed yet. I’ll let you know when I have further information."
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Post by Username on Aug 24, 2022 19:58:51 GMT 1
Our local councillor has been pushing for a service to resume to troydale after the 81 ceased due to ct plus going into Administration. He's posted this update "🚌Troydale Bus Service - Update 💬I’m continually talking to the combined authority regarding the situation Troydale residents are in and pushing for a service to resume as soon as possible. Dear Cllr Seary I appreciate the issues and we are actively trying to find an operator to take over the service. Unfortunately this has proven difficult as all operators are all struggling with driver shortages so we have had very little interest. However we potentially have a short term solution from one operator, but this isn’t confirmed yet. I’ll let you know when I have further information." West Yorkshire seems to be lacking behind. No doubt if this was Greater Manchester replacements would have been put up already. South Yorkshire has already had people cover their services but West Yorkshire hasn't. If Transdev has gotten up to a stable amount of drivers why don't they just takeover some services.
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Post by WYBS on Aug 24, 2022 20:30:01 GMT 1
Our local councillor has been pushing for a service to resume to troydale after the 81 ceased due to ct plus going into Administration. He's posted this update "🚌Troydale Bus Service - Update 💬I’m continually talking to the combined authority regarding the situation Troydale residents are in and pushing for a service to resume as soon as possible. Dear Cllr Seary I appreciate the issues and we are actively trying to find an operator to take over the service. Unfortunately this has proven difficult as all operators are all struggling with driver shortages so we have had very little interest. However we potentially have a short term solution from one operator, but this isn’t confirmed yet. I’ll let you know when I have further information." West Yorkshire seems to be lacking behind. No doubt if this was Greater Manchester replacements would have been put up already. South Yorkshire has already had people cover their services but West Yorkshire hasn't. If Transdev has gotten up to a stable amount of drivers why don't they just takeover some services. It's not as easy as just 'taking over some services'. Transdev are still short on drivers. Where would these routes run from? Ok the Huddersfield ones could run from Waterloo, but the Leeds ones?
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 24, 2022 20:55:21 GMT 1
Our local councillor has been pushing for a service to resume to troydale after the 81 ceased due to ct plus going into Administration. He's posted this update "🚌Troydale Bus Service - Update 💬I’m continually talking to the combined authority regarding the situation Troydale residents are in and pushing for a service to resume as soon as possible. Dear Cllr Seary I appreciate the issues and we are actively trying to find an operator to take over the service. Unfortunately this has proven difficult as all operators are all struggling with driver shortages so we have had very little interest. However we potentially have a short term solution from one operator, but this isn’t confirmed yet. I’ll let you know when I have further information." West Yorkshire seems to be lacking behind. No doubt if this was Greater Manchester replacements would have been put up already. South Yorkshire has already had people cover their services but West Yorkshire hasn't. If Transdev has gotten up to a stable amount of drivers why don't they just takeover some services. If Transdev has just about enough drivers (although I imagine they are still short) how exactly do they resource extra services?
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Post by joseph on Aug 25, 2022 5:10:06 GMT 1
Our local councillor has been pushing for a service to resume to troydale after the 81 ceased due to ct plus going into Administration. He's posted this update "🚌Troydale Bus Service - Update 💬I’m continually talking to the combined authority regarding the situation Troydale residents are in and pushing for a service to resume as soon as possible. Dear Cllr Seary I appreciate the issues and we are actively trying to find an operator to take over the service. Unfortunately this has proven difficult as all operators are all struggling with driver shortages so we have had very little interest. However we potentially have a short term solution from one operator, but this isn’t confirmed yet. I’ll let you know when I have further information." That could take the form of service 30 Pudsey journeys extended to Troydale and cut short at the other end, say terminating at Horsforth Town Street or even Fleece? Personally I'd keep that as a permanent solution as it doesn't make any sense as to why someone from Troydale would stay on an 81 all the way to Leeds when changing in Pudsey is quicker.
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Post by peteleeds on Aug 25, 2022 6:58:29 GMT 1
Our local councillor has been pushing for a service to resume to troydale after the 81 ceased due to ct plus going into Administration. He's posted this update "🚌Troydale Bus Service - Update 💬I’m continually talking to the combined authority regarding the situation Troydale residents are in and pushing for a service to resume as soon as possible. Dear Cllr Seary I appreciate the issues and we are actively trying to find an operator to take over the service. Unfortunately this has proven difficult as all operators are all struggling with driver shortages so we have had very little interest. However we potentially have a short term solution from one operator, but this isn’t confirmed yet. I’ll let you know when I have further information." That could take the form of service 30 Pudsey journeys extended to Troydale and cut short at the other end, say terminating at Horsforth Town Street or even Fleece? Personally I'd keep that as a permanent solution as it doesn't make any sense as to why someone from Troydale would stay on an 81 all the way to Leeds when changing in Pudsey is quicker. I thought the Horsforth rail station to Horsforth vale section was funded by the housing developer so can't imagine that bit been withdrawn
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Post by joseph on Aug 25, 2022 7:51:14 GMT 1
I've just noticed something regarding my suggestion about the 30, it won't be that what gets amended to serve Troydale simply because that was ran by CT Plus lol, although the comment above about developer funding does open up something interesting, would the developer be responsible for finding a replacement on that section?
Can't see any other service being amended as the 80 has little time to extend there from Old Farnley, same too with the 14.
Edit-: looking closer could it be that the 205 diverts to Troydale on a few journeys with those journeys terminating in Pudsey instead of Owlcoates?
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Post by steve440 on Aug 25, 2022 16:05:20 GMT 1
HCT group pulling out of Bristol and London as well. This from LOTS site.
"Tuesday 23 August There has been much speculation about the future of HCT services in London. It has been confirmed that HCT Group is in advanced talks with Stagecoach with a view to selling to them its TfL red-bus operation."
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 25, 2022 16:10:34 GMT 1
HCT group pulling out of Bristol and London as well. This from LOTS site. "Tuesday 23 August There has been much speculation about the future of HCT services in London. It has been confirmed that HCT Group is in advanced talks with Stagecoach with a view to selling to them its TfL red-bus operation." well they're pulling one London route this week or next.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 25, 2022 18:31:29 GMT 1
HCT group pulling out of Bristol and London as well. This from LOTS site. "Tuesday 23 August There has been much speculation about the future of HCT services in London. It has been confirmed that HCT Group is in advanced talks with Stagecoach with a view to selling to them its TfL red-bus operation." well they're pulling one London route this week or next. The 812, which was a strange one in that it isn’t a TfL service and hence not part of the ‘red bus’ operation mentioned here. It was a commercial operation by HCT (or not a commercial operation considering they were not for profit)
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Post by deerfold on Aug 25, 2022 21:43:22 GMT 1
well they're pulling one London route this week or next. The 812, which was a strange one in that it isn’t a TfL service and hence not part of the ‘red bus’ operation mentioned here. It was a commercial operation by HCT (or not a commercial operation considering they were not for profit) No, the 812 is funded by Islington Council. www.route812.org/#Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2022 9:44:45 GMT 1
The 812, which was a strange one in that it isn’t a TfL service and hence not part of the ‘red bus’ operation mentioned here. It was a commercial operation by HCT (or not a commercial operation considering they were not for profit) No, 812 is funded by Islington Council. www.route812.org/#Services in Bristol cease later today, it seems that it is likely stagecoach will assume London operations later also as HCT group heads for administration
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Post by peteleeds on Aug 26, 2022 13:06:08 GMT 1
81 been replaced. Local councillor posted below
"🚌Update 🚌No 81 bus service to return from 5th September.
I’m extremely pleased to share that the 81 bus service will be returning, when I found out that CT plus was ceasing trading I was in communication with officers the combined authority making them aware how vital this service was out our residents in Troydale, even suggesting alternative routes with the 14 to help the situation, but from the 5th Sept the service will return.
Cllr Seary, I am now able to confirm that we have arranged for SquarePeg (a local bus operator) to take over service 81 from 5th September. This will initially be a slightly reduced timetable (in line with driver availability), but the plan is for the full daytime service to be introduced from 3rd October. We will send you a copy of the timetable once its confirmed and registered (hopefully early next week)."
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Post by stephen01 on Aug 26, 2022 20:54:08 GMT 1
81 been replaced. Local councillor posted below "🚌Update 🚌No 81 bus service to return from 5th September. I’m extremely pleased to share that the 81 bus service will be returning, when I found out that CT plus was ceasing trading I was in communication with officers the combined authority making them aware how vital this service was out our residents in Troydale, even suggesting alternative routes with the 14 to help the situation, but from the 5th Sept the service will return. Cllr Seary, I am now able to confirm that we have arranged for SquarePeg (a local bus operator) to take over service 81 from 5th September. This will initially be a slightly reduced timetable (in line with driver availability), but the plan is for the full daytime service to be introduced from 3rd October. We will send you a copy of the timetable once its confirmed and registered (hopefully early next week)." Surprised Squarepeg not gone for the 30 instead
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Sept 2, 2022 16:08:57 GMT 1
Leeds school services have been reallocated as follows:
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
BR1, BR7, BR8, G2 Squarepeg BR5 Blue Sky Coaches CH24, CH25, CH26, CH27, CH28, CM3, G5, L74, L75, L78, L79, R1, R2, R4, R57 First West Yorkshire L54 Safeway Coaches 574, 575, G1, G4, R5 Tetley Motor Services 526 TJ's Travel
BR is Brigshaw, CH is Cardinal Heenan, CM is Carr Manor, 526 & G is Garforth L54 is Bruntcliffe, 575/575/L74-L79 is Rodillian, R1-R5 is Oulton Academy, R57 is Ralph Thoresby
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
P74 A&A Coach Travel P76 Blue Sky Coaches P44, P53, P54, P89 Tetley Motor Services S20 TJ's Travel
Wakefield school services have been reallocated as follows:
531 Arriva 582 TJ's Travel until October then Arriva 613 TJ's Travel until October then Arriva CL1 Ross Travel CL2 TBC until October then Arriva CL3 TBC until October then Arriva L02 TBC P51 Safeway P67 Safeway W07 TJ's Travel until October then Arriva WG2 TJ's Travel
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2022 18:03:57 GMT 1
Leeds school services have been reallocated as follows: SECONDARY SCHOOLS BR1, BR7, BR8, G2 Squarepeg BR5 Blue Sky Coaches CH24, CH25, CH26, CH27, CH28, CM3, G5, L74, L75, L78, L79, R1, R2, R4, R57 First West Yorkshire L54 Safeway Coaches 574, 575, G1, G4, R5 Tetley Motor Services 526 TJ's Travel BR is Brigshaw, CH is Cardinal Heenan, CM is Carr Manor, 526 & G is Garforth L54 is Bruntcliffe, 575/575/L74-L79 is Rodillian, R1-R5 is Oulton Academy, R57 is Ralph Thoresby PRIMARY SCHOOLS P74 A&A Coach Travel P76 Blue Sky Coaches P44, P53, P54, P89 Tetley Motor Services S20 TJ's Travel Wakefield school services have been reallocated as follows: 531 Arriva 582 TJ's Travel until October then Arriva 613 TJ's Travel until October then Arriva CL1 Ross Travel CL2 TBC until October then Arriva CL3 TBC until October then Arriva L02 TBC P51 Safeway P67 Safeway W07 TJ's Travel until October then Arriva WG2 TJ's Travel Another two are L53 and L57 Yorkshire Travel Group Ltd
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