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Yeomans have also seen cuts to their Herefordshire Council contract services.

TimBrown wrote: ↑

09:55 Sunday 29th March 2020

...who would have thought 2019 would be the golden era of public transport!

Steady on there!

Probably reflects the drop in revenue more than anything else. As advised, people are not going out and are this not using buses. No Local Authorities in any area - as far as I know - have offered any additional funding to support services, so operators must cut or go bust. The MD of Stagecoach West...

Due to the drastic reduction in PVR starting today (Sunday 29th), Stagecoach West have taken a large number of vehicles off the road and put them into storage. These are all SORNed and have been parked in all sorts of interesting places around Gloucester depot, such as the staff car park, bike rack ...

From Monday 50% of staff at Worcester depot are being sent home. Meanwhile, there are still significant numbers of people using buses for non-essential travel. There have been dozens of reports of people - mostly OAPs - getting on a bus and just riding around and getting off again where they started...

Gloucestershire Council have now also agreed to pay for concessionary cards to be used 24/7.

Indeed. Some major problems on the horizon. Stagecoach West will move to a Saturday timetable on Monday, for one week only. The following week will be an emergency timetable that is currently in the planning. Expect drastic cuts to city routes.

Just seen a 20-reg First Bristol double-deck in the same livery.

I think coach operators are going to be hit very hard... No schools, no tours, no private hires. What is left for them to do?

Chatting to a NatEx driver on a 444 to London last night. He is on a 2-day week starting on Monday and some of his colleagues have already been given notice of redundancy.

Good news for some...