like this....

Car park and ride left totally empty as £51million project can't afford to connect to road (gbnews.com)

Apologise it GB news but it seems to be a right white elephant. Hope the one at AON doesn't end up like this!

Boro based Siesta Travel have announced this is their last season doing coach holidays to Europe.

Important announcement: 2025 season!

We know that many of you have been waiting for the launch of our 2025 season and we are so sorry to have to disappoint you, sadly, after 45 seasons of providing coach holidays to France and Spain it has been decided that 2024 will be our last season operating our coach shuttle service.

For those of you that have a booking in place for 2024 please do not be concerned, your holiday will still go ahead as planned and for those who had hoped to travel with us in 2025, we sincerely hope you can join us on one of our farewell 2024 trips! Our last departure of the Summer season will be 19th October and we will also run our winter private groups and our Xmas and New Year special.
The Lodge self-catering accommodation for 2025 season will be available to all Siesta Holidays customers via Lifestyle Holidays and a ‘previous Siesta customer’ discount of 10% will apply.

Many factors, mostly outside of our control, have made the coach programme more and more difficult to operate, particularly to the high level of customer care that our loyal customers expect of us. Above inflationary rising costs of fuel and channel crossings, essential to providing our package holidays has also made it more challenging to be able to provide the affordable holidays upon which we have built our reputation.

We would like to take this opportunity of expressing our gratitude to our many thousands of clients who have supported us throughout the years, and particularly those who helped us through the pandemic. The loyalty and support of our clients and staff is amazing and very much appreciated!

I loved looking through the photos.

It's a shame that it's been tarred with reports on social media.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/c7xFVecCAxdFtG1w/

I know it's generally something that me and others moan about timetables with uneven patterns but it's good to see that the new £4.5m AI system that Firstbus (https://news.firstbus.co.uk/news/first-b...s-industry) is using is bringing out timetables which are all clean and efficent for customers... oh wait

What a mess the new timetables are in Stoke, with completely bizarre timetables, as an understatement

This is the sort of nonsense which is being produced - https://www.firstbus.co.uk/potteries/pla...2024-09-01 and even worse according to RailUK who have cyphered the timetables, there's buses sitting around 20 minutes here and there doing absolutely nothing so there's no reason why they're like this.

For the record this is what's being replaced - https://bustimes.org/services/3-hanley-t...ager-crewe, nice and clean.

Absolutely crazy, I guess the management there don't have a braincell between them to intervene and not notice it's a complete mess. It's like giving a kid with a computer who doesn't know what he's doing asking ChatGDP to create a timetable and literally use the thing without actually looking at it. They've literally produced a service which is worse than currently and increased the PVR in the process, what an own goal.

This man travelled from Canada to Mexico on only public transport - BBC News

Man managed it in 9 days. Some great views on the way

Mod Edit: Split topic from Disruption and driver shortages thread. Relates to on-going rioting across the UK and mainly across 2nd/3rd/4th August. 

See articles:

• https://news.sky.com/story/uk-riots-late...e-13186819
  
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw5yyynpwnzt
  

You can report incidents at: https://www.police.uk/pu/contact-us/

⚠️⚠️Sunderland Buses⚠️⚠️

Due to the ongoing protests in Sunderland we have made the difficult decision to terminate ALL services short of Sunderland.

Service 56/35A/9/24 will terminate at Wheatsheaf.

Service 2/2A/39/39A will terminate at the Hospital.

Service 78 will terminate at the Hospital.

Service 8 will terminate at B&Q

We apologise for any inconvenience caused to customers.

Stay safe everyone!

Thought this could use its own thread.

It looks like the NECA Cabinet on 30th July will agree to issue a notice of intent to prepare a Franchising Scheme Assessment (FSA). This is a legal step that the authority needs to take.

The report is extensive and covered in page 73 to 313 of the agenda pack: https://www.northeast-ca.gov.uk/download...-07-24.pdf

The Chronicle has also done a write up, wirh their usual tabloid style headlining: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...t-29606117

Interestingly, Go North East and Arriva seem to now be in full support. Oh how times change!

I thought I would post this so we could remember the good the bad and the ugly... oh and maybe the worst .liveries..
I'll start.....
The worst in my opinion...."The Nine" also pointless and the colour was awful.
.... everyone get involved..

Just to put this under the Stagecoach thread too:

Great Park bus services

New bus services to Newcastle Great Park

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and...s-services

To transfer the September 2024 changes from the July 2024 changes thread