{"id":3048,"date":"2023-08-09T01:32:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/the-hayling-failing\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T01:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T01:32:47","slug":"the-hayling-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/the-hayling-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hayling Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0It Always Used To Be 25<\/span><\/p>\n At one time the core service ran every 10 minutes between Clarence Pier and South Parade Pier with extensions every 20 minutes to The Hard and Hayling Ferry.<\/p>\n … First withdrew after buying Provvy and later returned with service 50 for a while. But by the time the lock-don collapse collapsed services were a curious and feeble mixture of route 15 (GREEN<\/span>) and 16 (MAROON<\/span>).<\/p>\n Then, there was great news! Tendered by Portsmouth City, First was returning to Hayling Ferry with the famous, much loved and popular toute 25<\/span>!<\/p><\/div>\n The sea front was ignored! A few months later, the new 25 was diverted to serve Old Portsmouth …<\/p>\n … where once tan trams and later trolleybus.<\/p>\n The maps are a bit over enlarged, but below, tram track …<\/p>\n The tram tracks on Broad Street are still there.<\/p>\n But Old Portsmouth declined as a residential area and now only the 25 runs regularly throughout the year.<\/p><\/div>\n and this is the busy tram terminus, later to be a busy trolleybus terminus.<\/p>\n In loving memory of the old days, today’s Clarence Pier has a three-stand bus station!<\/p>\n Only the 25 ventures here, joined by the Hoverbus (run by Stagecoach) …<\/p>\n … but the Hoverbus does not use the bus station – sensibly, it stands next to the Hovercraft terminal.<\/p>\n … amd Stagecoach 700 called more recently.<\/p>\n A propos of nothing, fbb came across this picture of a single decker from the days when “ordinary” city buses ran to Clarence Pier.<\/p>\n Portsmouth was one of the earliest municipal operators to run one man buses as above. These started in 1960\u00a0<\/span>and would have begun their reign in 1959<\/span> were it not for an industrial punch-up about one man wages!<\/p><\/div>\n But the new 25 is even more dismal than that. First’s\u00a0 new 25 ran every 45 minutes …<\/p>\n … which means nobody can remember the times and it doesn’t always connect with the ferry to Hayling Island. It still runs every 45 minutes …<\/p>\n … and will continue to do so when Stagecoach takes over on September 3rd.<\/p>\n It lasted just one season.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … but it did not run to Hayling Ferry, just a shuttle from the Hard to South Parade Pier, further east on the Southsea coast.<\/p>\n Cheap to run with just one bus and it is a far cry from every 10 minutes of the past.<\/p><\/div>\n … complete with posh leaflet …<\/p>\n … and a high price cunningly not mentioned on the leaflet.<\/p><\/div>\n