End of the line for full Yellow Buses timetable (From Bournemouth Echo)
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End of the line for full Yellow Buses timetable
5:00pm Monday 11th March 2013 in News
YELLOW Buses has announced that is has called time on printing copies of its full timetable.
The information will instead be available in dedicated booklets for individual services, and online.
The specially-tailored booklets will provide all the times, plus maps, details about where to board, and diagrams of the network.
The company said the information in the full timetable was out of date so quickly it was having to print more and more additional booklets to keep up.
Yellow Buses’ head of marketing, Jenni Wilkinson, said: “It was a difficult decision to make because our timetable has been printed for many decades, and we know some people will be disappointed and so have looked at increasing the ways we can make the information available.
“Unfortunately the cost of printing and the fact it was so quickly out of date meant it was best to change the way we provide our passengers with information.
“Each service will have its own booklet that will contain all the times as well as other information that we know passengers want.
“The way that our passengers access information has been changing and the printed timetable isn’t always the simplest way to get the information.”
Comments(7)
bbird
says...
8:35pm Mon 11 Mar 13
RedhillPete
says...
9:49pm Mon 11 Mar 13
bbird - try http://www.traveline
sw.com
not idea but a start.
(Note to self: Must get out more - but not on a bus!!!)
muscliffman
says...
10:42pm Mon 11 Mar 13
RedhillPete wrote:Well when 'I was a lad' for a year or two we even had Hants/Wilts & Dorset bus services schedule included inside the Yellow Bus timetable.
Shame to see 'when i was a lad' methods go, but makes sense. Assume they will have pocket sized leaflets similar to SW train routes etc.
bbird - try http://www.traveline
sw.com
not idea but a start.
(Note to self: Must get out more - but not on a bus!!!)
But of course in those very different days both local bus operators were in public ownership, (local or national).
Neither was therefore principally motivated by profit, competition or shareholder interests. Financially breaking even and most importantly providing a reliable public social service were the priorities.
Progress I think they call it!
Phixer
says...
5:54am Tue 12 Mar 13
muscliffman wrote:Do you want the buses to go back to local council control?
RedhillPete wrote:Well when 'I was a lad' for a year or two we even had Hants/Wilts & Dorset bus services schedule included inside the Yellow Bus timetable.
Shame to see 'when i was a lad' methods go, but makes sense. Assume they will have pocket sized leaflets similar to SW train routes etc.
bbird - try http://www.traveline
sw.com
not idea but a start.
(Note to self: Must get out more - but not on a bus!!!)
But of course in those very different days both local bus operators were in public ownership, (local or national).
Neither was therefore principally motivated by profit, competition or shareholder interests. Financially breaking even and most importantly providing a reliable public social service were the priorities.
Progress I think they call it!
All those fare rises to cover for incompetence or employing more council non-jobs.
Buses only operating between 9-5 due union restrictive practices.
Look how our £3 million was wasted on a few sand bags.
And bring back those environmentally friendly trolley buses, still popular in more enlightened parts of the world - usually referred to as 'third world'!
woby_tide
says...
9:03am Tue 12 Mar 13
bbird wrote:Like http://www.transport
All local buses and trains would be best integrated into one website. If I want to go from Bournemouth to Wareham, I may have to trawl through Yellow Buses, Blue Buses and trains to find a route. And then whether the bus stops at my local stop. Crazy!
direct.info ?
upyourpipe
says...
10:09am Tue 12 Mar 13
Phixer wrote:Have to agree about the trolley buses, I rode on one of the last trolleys in 1969 and even then we thought they would regret this decision.
muscliffman wrote:Do you want the buses to go back to local council control?
RedhillPete wrote:Well when 'I was a lad' for a year or two we even had Hants/Wilts & Dorset bus services schedule included inside the Yellow Bus timetable.
Shame to see 'when i was a lad' methods go, but makes sense. Assume they will have pocket sized leaflets similar to SW train routes etc.
bbird - try http://www.traveline
sw.com
not idea but a start.
(Note to self: Must get out more - but not on a bus!!!)
But of course in those very different days both local bus operators were in public ownership, (local or national).
Neither was therefore principally motivated by profit, competition or shareholder interests. Financially breaking even and most importantly providing a reliable public social service were the priorities.
Progress I think they call it!
All those fare rises to cover for incompetence or employing more council non-jobs.
Buses only operating between 9-5 due union restrictive practices.
Look how our £3 million was wasted on a few sand bags.
And bring back those environmentally friendly trolley buses, still popular in more enlightened parts of the world - usually referred to as 'third world'!
Mind you with health and safety as it is now could you really see a conductor jumping off a moving bus to change the points on the wires, or pushing a bus round on a turntable.
Shame, it would have been a brilliant tourist attraction.
Richard 1976 says...
7:40pm Mon 11 Mar 13