(01 Jul 2021, 2:00 pm)Andreos1 wrote Ah interesting. Genuinely didn't realise that the circular routes had stopped.
Guessing through fares were available then (I. E Biddick to Lambton), but wouldn't be an option now.
Totally agree with comments about the Washington network.
A pale shadow of what it once was and that map you produced years back, really emphasises it.
The fact there have been further changes/reductions since then, emphasises it even more.
Those stops you mention on Parkway near the roundabout are fairly new in the scheme of things. The stop outside Biddick School wasn't an 'official' stop for a long time either. It was flagged as a scholars only stop for years and it was always a risk heading there for a St George's or a GNE service. More often than not, they didn't stop and if they did, it was only ever the ones that had came through Biddick Village. Anything which had came down past The Vic would give it a miss.
Canny gap between Biddick Village and the Arts Centre.
Through-fares are still available to Lambton and Harraton on the 83 (changing to 81), but as per previous post today, the setup of the Little Pinks network means that you cannot get a return ticket from those points.
The Parkway stops, although infrastructure was only put in place recently, were always a place the scholars services would stop. I can recall this going back into the early 90s. I think they were put in place around the time the hail and ride services stopped.
I know the 8 announces the Biddick School stop now and the other services (83, 4, X1A) are scheduled to serve it, but I've tried this a couple of times and its just taken as an assumed bell push for the Arts Centre. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use that stop, even at kicking out time for the schools... they just walk to the main stop, which is the same distance away.