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Unilink
Aug 15, 2007 13:21:48 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Aug 15, 2007 13:21:48 GMT 1
From the start of new University term in September. First will be introducing the "Unilink" brand to to srevices 92 (Tannery-Leeds-Beckett Park) and 95 (Leeds-Boddington Hall).
Service 92 will be revised to operate via Woodhouse and Meanwood Road to replace withdrawn service 58. Also this revised route will provide direct link from Sugawell Court Halls of Residence on Meanwood Road to Beckett Park campus and other Leeds Met Campuses.
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Unilink
Aug 15, 2007 14:15:04 GMT 1
Post by moonraker79 on Aug 15, 2007 14:15:04 GMT 1
From the start of new University term in September. First will be introducing the "Unilink" brand to to srevices 92 (Tannery-Leeds-Beckett Park) and 95 (Leeds-Boddington Hall). Service 92 will be revised to operate via Woodhouse and Meanwood Road to replace withdrawn service 58. Also this revised route will provide direct link from Sugawell Court Halls of Residence on Meanwood Road to Beckett Park campus and other Leeds Met Campuses. Expect to see special student fares.
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Unilink
Aug 15, 2007 17:09:25 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Aug 15, 2007 17:09:25 GMT 1
No just normal fares offered along with FirstTerm tickets.
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Unilink
Aug 15, 2007 18:16:22 GMT 1
Post by moonraker79 on Aug 15, 2007 18:16:22 GMT 1
No just normal fares offered along with FirstTerm tickets. I though they would do what they're doing with the University service in Sheffield and charge students 50p single when they produce a student card.
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Unilink
Aug 15, 2007 20:14:28 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Aug 15, 2007 20:14:28 GMT 1
Well seeing as the services are not new, no special fares will be offered. Well publicity that I picked up about Unilink suggested nothing about that.
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Unilink
Aug 29, 2007 16:14:08 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Aug 29, 2007 16:14:08 GMT 1
Alexander RHs are been painted for the service. The aim is for students to use the 95 and 92 only and other services for "none students". So these buses will be easily recognisable.
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Unilink
Aug 30, 2007 14:38:58 GMT 1
Post by humberside on Aug 30, 2007 14:38:58 GMT 1
Will the 92 run all year if it partially replaces the 58, or will parts of Woodhouse be without a bus service in university holidays?
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Unilink
Aug 30, 2007 21:42:21 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Aug 30, 2007 21:42:21 GMT 1
Yes the 92 will be still Mondays to Fridays during Uni term times. However an evenings and Sundays service 60 will operate along 58 route.
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Unilink
Aug 31, 2007 17:33:39 GMT 1
Post by humberside on Aug 31, 2007 17:33:39 GMT 1
So oddly enough that part of Leeds will have an evening and Sunday service in university holidays, but no Monday to Saturday daytime service
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Aug 31, 2007 21:00:10 GMT 1
Post by stevo on Aug 31, 2007 21:00:10 GMT 1
reason for no service daytimes thru woodhouse is because no one uses it and evenings are subsidised by metro otherwise that wouldnt be run either
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Post by jackh on Sept 1, 2007 8:10:19 GMT 1
Well in the past couple of years, First seemed to have played about with it loads, there used to be the 59, 60. They were withdrawn and replaced by 63C, then when that and the 63 was withdrawn. The 58 was introduced again.
However the 92 will not be serving Woodhouse Ridge where the 58 goes "around the houses". Also the 92 does not operate Saturdays.
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Unilink
Sept 1, 2007 10:44:18 GMT 1
Post by moonraker79 on Sept 1, 2007 10:44:18 GMT 1
Alexander RHs are been painted for the service. The aim is for students to use the 95 and 92 only and other services for "none students". So these buses will be easily recognisable. Wouldn't it be easier if they just used branding for it instead of a new livery
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Unilink
Sept 1, 2007 18:48:24 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Sept 1, 2007 18:48:24 GMT 1
Well no, a livery stands out more than just branding. At least the buses will be less likely to go on to other routes and branding on windows will just end up been in a mess as you all well know!!!
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Unilink
Sept 1, 2007 19:00:19 GMT 1
Post by moonraker79 on Sept 1, 2007 19:00:19 GMT 1
Well no, a livery stands out more than just branding. At least the buses will be less likely to go on to other routes and branding on windows will just end up been in a mess as you all well know!!! Alright calm down, I was only saying that it would be much cheaper to just use branding unless students can't read destination blinds and have to reliy on the colour of buses.
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Sept 2, 2007 21:14:52 GMT 1
Post by MT on Sept 2, 2007 21:14:52 GMT 1
To be honest Jack I dont think that a different colour bus is anything for people to rely on. I've seen members of the public get on a yellow school bus as it pulled up to a stop, even with the destination saying 'Private Charter'! I personally think the new livery's a good idea, it'll brighten up the fleet, and its not like First cant afford to repaint some buses. Its really no different to the X6 livery on Bradford's eclipses. Only problem/downside to this is that buses never stay on the same route. I've seen X6 liveried eclipses on 72 route lots of times.
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Unilink
Sept 2, 2007 21:28:51 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Sept 2, 2007 21:28:51 GMT 1
Well theyre not fully branded (should be) so can't see the problem. But I would imagine the Kirkstall allocators will be more stringent with these buses. Because local management will more likely end up in dog house if they go on the wrong routes.
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Unilink
Sept 11, 2007 22:21:17 GMT 1
Post by Craig on Sept 11, 2007 22:21:17 GMT 1
Having seen pictures of the final unilink branding I must see it seems, well a bit of a mess really! I quite liked the basic colour scheme as shown in the pic posted here previously, but now they've stuck on photos of the two universities but also, as First seem to quite like doing these days, pictures of random, over-excited looking people (similar to the uncalled for 10ft high smiling faces which adorn overground branded buses).
On a separate note, I haven't yet worked out why the 92 was advertised as 'semi-replacing' the 58, as it doesn't serve anywhere that the trunk 51/51A route doesn't. Its only because the 51 was diverted that way that the Woodhouse Ridge service became almost superfluous.
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Unilink
Sept 12, 2007 9:52:32 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Sept 12, 2007 9:52:32 GMT 1
Well I suppose if you live on Grove Lane, you don't have to walk as far now for a bus.
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Unilink
Sept 12, 2007 19:15:33 GMT 1
Post by Craig on Sept 12, 2007 19:15:33 GMT 1
I more meant that the 92 won't serve anywhere that the withdrawn 58 went. Not that this really matters - the 58 was a very poorly used (often seen empty) service which you couldn't possibly expect an operator to run commercially in this day and age. Quite why Metro will still happily inject money into the 60 is another matter altogether - other than on a Sunday, the timetable is so sporadic it hardly seems worth its existence!
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Unilink
Sept 13, 2007 16:00:27 GMT 1
Post by jabbott1987 on Sept 13, 2007 16:00:27 GMT 1
Where are the pictures of these buses
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Unilink
Sept 13, 2007 20:55:51 GMT 1
Post by markr on Sept 13, 2007 20:55:51 GMT 1
Can't see students just sticking to those routes - I was a student in Leeds and used just about any bus on the Otley Road corridor, whether it was a 1, 28, 95 or 96. The 92 didn't go far enough up Otley Road to be any use to me, nor did the 97/97A (or the 755 when that ran). In fact, as the 92 avoids Otley Road for most of its length, more students will use the other routes. I'm rather more concerned about the lack of buses in Burley Park now (we had the 63 and 752 when I was there, now neither of these exist), forcing people to use the already overcrowded 18s and 56, with a fair walk to boot!
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Unilink
Sept 13, 2007 21:16:50 GMT 1
Post by Craig on Sept 13, 2007 21:16:50 GMT 1
The 92 has been redesigned to link all the halls of residence around Little London, Woodhouse and Meanwood rather than Otley Road, so that students living in these areas can directly access Headingley campus and the city centre university sites. The 95 is then supposedly to be the sole student service on the A660, though of course like you say most people will get on the first bus that comes along. That is unless they ever do introduce a special "Unilink only" ticket (I know this isn't planned, but it works fine for Stagecoach and MagicBus in Manchester).
I agree with you regarding Burley Park, when First took over Black Prince's routes I expected that they would drop the 752 in favour of their own 63, but was surprised when they also withdrew that! Was Geldards brief operation of the 752 an indication it was no longer a popular service or did they just not keep it going long enough to re-establish itself I wonder?
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Unilink
Sept 13, 2007 21:55:58 GMT 1
Post by kendall17 on Sept 13, 2007 21:55:58 GMT 1
the 56 gets even better when the rhinos are at home haha, but yeah when i go 2 rugby and get off at mahmoods 4 a bite 2 eat mmmm, the buses going past are always packed, the 56 is on a morning from whinmoor to the uni, as ex corpus christi school kids go 2 notre dame [opposite the uni] they wont help the overcrowdingness at all
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Unilink
Sept 13, 2007 22:34:10 GMT 1
Post by Craig on Sept 13, 2007 22:34:10 GMT 1
Maybe a better Unilink network could be created with a new service covering these now forgotten parts of Hyde Park and Burley Park - make it every 20 minutes like the 92 maybe? It could also be extended to Clarence Dock in place of the 28, and then with a larger network covering the main sites and halls of residence, a Unilink only prepaid ticket would be more feasible and would be better at acheiving the market segregation.
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Unilink
Sept 14, 2007 13:19:12 GMT 1
Post by jackh on Sept 14, 2007 13:19:12 GMT 1
Can't see students just sticking to those routes - I was a student in Leeds and used just about any bus on the Otley Road corridor, whether it was a 1, 28, 95 or 96. The 92 didn't go far enough up Otley Road to be any use to me, nor did the 97/97A (or the 755 when that ran). In fact, as the 92 avoids Otley Road for most of its length, more students will use the other routes. I'm rather more concerned about the lack of buses in Burley Park now (we had the 63 and 752 when I was there, now neither of these exist), forcing people to use the already overcrowded 18s and 56, with a fair walk to boot! I think that a service starting from Eden Drive Junction running via St Anne's Lane, St Anne's Drive, St Michael's Lane, Stanmore Hill, Cardigan Lane, Ashiville Road, Cardigan Road, Brudnell Road, Hyde Park Road, Moorland Road, Claredon Road, Woodhouse Lane, Blenheim Walk, Woodhouse Lane, Albion Street, Headrow then Eastgate. Running every 15 minutes so it's not too frequent but frequent enough to justify waiting for it running between 8am to 6.30pm Mondays to Saturdays would be indeal. That would cover Burley and along Brudnell Road as well.
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