Tuesday 21 February 2012

Stagecoach To enhance bus-way services from July

Stagecoach have announced improvements to there Busway services. With eight  new buses of which they are made up off  three Enviro400 bodied Scania N230UD's and five Wrightbus Eclipse Urban 2 bodied Volvo B7RLE's. there will also  be improvements with a timetable change in july from every 10 mins to every 7-8mins and also faster services from Huntingdon to Cambridge when a new stop is constructed, which will also mean customers travelling from Huntingdon will have a quicker journey because they will not have to go round the St Ives one-way system. also all stagecoach's A &B services will serve St Ives town center   with these timetables changes what will mean it theory the  A will run every 15 mins from St Ives to Trumpington P&R  and the B Huntingdon to Cambridge will run every 15 mins too . instead of every 20 mins what they both run at the moment . I only wish they would think wish stagecoach would run every half hour in the evening instead of every hour as it is at the moment even if they ran every half hour in the evening till say 10 ish  but will see in the timetable change . 

one of stagecoachs wrightbus eclipse urban 2 bodied volovo B7RLE'S
Andy campbell stagecoach Cambridgeshire’s managing director  said to the Cambridge news that: “I think 1 million customers in four-and-a-half months showed there was a desire to use the busway.
“This is a positive step which will hopefully increase patronage even further.”Mr Campbell then said passengers would also benefit from the extension of all services to St Ives town centre when a new stop is constructed, which will also mean customers travelling from Huntingdon will have a quicker journey because they will not have to go round the St Ives one-way system.  but in a email to me today about the busway changes he said ''The busway frequency changes are not finalised. Next years vehicle deliveries have not been confirmed yet.'' so it sounds like it still up in the air yet but what will whippet do to compensate for stagecoach  service changes ............  

     

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