Former bus boss has raised the alarm after helping parish councils respond the local transport consequences of major new housing developments Ben Colson spent his career in the bus industry The new government’s pledge to deliver 1.5 million homes over the next five years risks the creation of new car-dependent communities unless the current planning framework is urgently…
Issue 319 of Passenger Transport is published on August 23. Contents include: LEAD STORY Action urged on new housing and transport Former bus boss has raised the alarm after helping parish councils respond the local transport consequences of major new housing developments NEWS Patronage boost sees Bee Network on track Transport for Greater Manchester reveals a 5%…
Warning :This blog will hurt you brain! Frantically Finding Out! On the First South Yorkshire web site, the above picture is accompanied by some meaningful text. So, having caught the Summer Woohoo, fbb is looking for timetable changes from 1st September – information which will include then new-look 95s. Woohoo! We are guided from the opening headline page to details…
Confusing 95s : A PTE Surprise Many PTE non-leaflets had appeared on-line before fbb published his first look at First. But mostly we are still waiting for PTE timetables for the big changes. Generally, PTE timetables are easier to read and follow than those of created by First’s crackpot technology. Instead of First’s “show everything in one lump” policy, including…
It is odd how word meanings change over the centuries. A “fable” was always a pleasant but totally false tale, perhaps with a hidden meaning. Somehow, the falseness becomes lost and the hidden meaning changes to “something very special” when we use the word “fabulous” meaning “like a fable”. South Yorkshire PTE’s route 18 in Sheffield … … could…
Diesel Electric? Gas Turbine Electric! Above is a turbine. A turbine (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced can be used for generating electrical power when combined with a generator. A turbine is a turbo machine…
Race For The Smallest Now fbb in his elderly naivety, always thought that a “shunting tractor” was a tractor used for shunting, as above or in model form below. It is true that such vehicles were often used at industrial premises where the occasional movement of wagons did not justify a “proper” rail mounted locomotive. But in full sized railway…
Incredinly Italian! Rothesay – and yes, that’s Lena’s Family! Brora – and Peter and Lewis’ family. And if you don’t know where Brora is (fbb had to look it up!) here’s a map. It is in the traditional county of Sutherland which. of course, means Land of the South – hence its location in the far North of Scotland! Largs…
Ipswich Has Two Bus Stations Tower Ramparts was the home of Ipswich Corporation buses, still Local authority owned today. Old Cattle Market bus station was the home of Eastern National buses, later First Bus. Since privatisation and following both competition and First cutbacks, other operators, including Ipswich Buses, will appear as it is the home of the “out of town”…
Who Knows? It is reported that the children of Shiregreen estate in Sheffield have learned a new “nursery rhyme” which they sing enthusiastically as they play their street games outside their homes on the estate. The words vary, but are something like this. Buses, Buses See what the fuss is! Where does the new route go? Weird bus stop names,…