Today, the world returns to normal. If you’ve been an infrequent visitor to the Omnibuses Blog over the last coupla weeks, here’s seven things you need to know.
- Ipswich seems certain to sell its bus operations to Go Ahead. Who said news was quiet between Christmas & New Year?
- The OFT cleared Stagecoach to buy Islwyn Borough Transport. Unless Clayton Jones has something to say about it
- Controversially, we suggested that the celebratory day regarding Winchester’s once “municipal” operator was actually celebrating failure
- A shed-load of people arrived by search engine seeking usually non-existent Boxing Day buses. Has the industry anything to learn from these enquires?
- We looked at the pre-Christmas chaos caused by snow
- TfL announced to the world that Wrightbus was to build its Borismaster Routemaster replacement
- Last chance to try your hand at our New Year trivia quiz
On the last day of the year, Pseudonymous very eruditely considered why Ipswich won’t be the last arms-length operator to sell
In 10 Word Each (the last municipals)
The Small Guy
Better off under Go Ahead? (Plymouth Citybus)
Telling Porky Pies (destination displays that say very little)
Internet. Another Word for Fickle
Metro (newspapers on buses)
Dear Madam (Open letter to car driving complainant re: Half-empty Buses)
Is Small Beautiful? (Rossendale)
Vacuous (a bus back advert)
Laughable Decision (Bankfoot Buses)
How do we Measure Up? (Survey results related to BUUK)
Bring ‘em On (Lay-bys)
New Era Dawned (Timtronic)
Lost in Translation (foreign web sites mis-translate)
Bed Time Reading (Cardiff Bus after 2Travel)
Confidence Shaken (how not to manage withdrawal in the UK)
More Twists than Oliver (Velvet and Bluestar)
Drastic Measures (First’s response to the recession)
Law in Action (photography)
12 of *your* favourite posts, judging by your comments
Graph of UK Bus Sales
Backing Up (on reversing buses)
Omnibuses Meets Leon Daniels
Christmas Trivia Quiz
The Benefits of Bendies
Minibus Futures (Optare Solo)
Long Suffering (teenagers on buses especially double decks)
Who was Right & Who was Wronged? (Velvet v Bluestar)
Feeders (passenger hate changing buses)
Your Bus (Nottingham)
Terminology (our jargon)
Fotopic Problems or Dead?
10 of my favourite posts with pictures
11C: An Outer Odyssey
Compromise by Design (Bath bus sation)
In Praise of Conductors and A Chemical Intolerance (Swansea Metro)
Bus to the Rescue (Metrolink)
A Real Busman’s Minibus (Metrorider)
Obituary (Almost) (Metrobus)
Quack-CWAC (Chester revisited)
Dottingham (Nottingham)
A Capital Operation (Cardiff)
Remember Erica Roe (Erica Roe and Bournemouth early campaigns)
Pictures of Liverpool
1 comments:
Keep up the good work in 2010 mate.
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