Its clear that September will see quite a few timetable changes.
Cornwall
Go South West have released details for Cornwall (which includes the First South West routes that are changing too)
We are making changes to our Cornwall network from 3rd September 2023.
Key highlights include:
- An update to Callywith College network
- Service 72 will be re-numbered to 10
- Service 11 is reduced to two hourly between Plymouth and Bodmin Parkway
There will also be a revised network of services around the Liskeard and Wadebridge area and the re-numbering of some sections of our current routes.
There will be changes to First Kernow and Stagecoach which will be available soon.
There are no changes to Travel Cornwall, OTS or Hopley's coaches.
Timetables will be available in due course so please keep an eye out on our socials
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Route |
Change |
Operated by |
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T1/T2 – The Tinner |
Revised timetable will be introduced during the daytime Mondays to Saturdays. Certain journeys will call at Hayle Community School |
These changes affect First Kernow Services, Go Cornwall Bus operated journeys will remain unchanged |
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U1/U1A – Coast to Coast |
The service will remain split at Truro until the 1st October due to the ongoing roadworks on the A30. Also, from the 3rd September on schooldays the 0720 Falmouth to Newquay journey will be retimed to 0700 and operate via Richard Lander School. The 1420 Newquay departure will depart at 1415 on schooldays and will also call into Richard Lander school on its way to Truro |
First Kernow |
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U2 – Cornwall's Copper |
The 0745 Falmouth to Cambourne journey will depart at 0730 on schooldays and run via Redruth School. The 1455 Barncoose Hospital journey will additionally call at Redruth School on schooldays and operate 15 minutes later from Redruth to Falmouth. The 1605 departure from Falmouth will depart at 1620 weekdays |
First Kernow |
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U3 |
No planned changes |
First Kernow |
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2/2A |
TBC |
Stagecoach SW |
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5/5A |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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6/6A |
TBC |
Stagecoach SW |
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8 |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus
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9 |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus
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10 |
Renumbering of service 72. Revised timetable to provide an hourly headway between Plymouth and Trerulefoot with service 11. An hourly headway will operate between Widegates and Polperro with service 73 |
Go Cornwall Bus
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11 |
A revised timetable will be introduced providing an hourly headway between Plymouth and Trerulefoot with service 10. A reduced two hourly service will operate between Trerulefoot and Bodmin Parkway Station. An hourly headway will operate between Liskeard and Trago Mill with service 77. The 30-minute service is retained between Bodmin Parkway and Wadebridge with buses extended to Padstow hourly. Times have been adjusted across the day to provide better connections with rail services at Bodmin Parkway |
Go Cornwall Bus
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12 |
Service retimed to provide 30-minute frequency between Plymouth and Saltash, (interwork with 10 & 11), the hourly service to Callington and 2 hourly to Bude will remain in place. Most journeys to operate as 12, and St Dominic and Ashton are now served by 74 |
Go Cornwall Bus
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12A |
Limited to 4 journeys per day, providing connection to Schools and Colleges |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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15 |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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16/16A |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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17 |
From 1st October a revised timetable will be introduced on Mondays to Saturdays. This service will now operate every 45 minutes between 0900 and 1500 Mondays to Fridays and daytime on Saturday, during the winter period |
First Kernow |
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18 – Tin Coaster |
No planned changes |
First Kernow
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19 |
No planned changes |
First Kernow
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21 |
Revised timetable and routing to enable service to connect with service 26 at St Austell and accommodate revised session times at Tretherras School. This will provide a cross St Austell service enabling improved access to local facilities. Whitemoor will no longer be served by ser 21 but will be linked to St Austell and Truro by service 22. Passengers wishing to travel between Whitmoor and Newquay will be able to change buses at St Dennis |
Go Cornwall Bus
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22 |
Revised timetable and route within St Austell to operate from Trinity Street to ASDA and into St Austell Bus Station via Alexandra Road providing a requested link from the Clays villages to Asda. Departure from St Austell and Truro are 5 minutes earlier |
Go Cornwall Bus
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23 |
No planned changes |
Travel Cornwall |
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24 |
Evening journeys operated by Go Cornwall Bus will follow the same route as the daytime First Kernow operated journeys |
First Kernow supported by Go Cornwall Bus |
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25 |
Some minor timetable changes to improve the route reliability, Level of service remains as now. The Sunday service will be re-numbered 28 and be extended to the Eden Project |
Go Cornwall Bus
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26 |
Service retimed to work with service 21 on most journeys, providing cross St Austell links. Route remains unchanged |
Go Cornwall Bus
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27 |
First journey operated by Go Cornwall Bus from St Austell will start at St Austell Aldi and operate via Bethel Chapel, before St Austell Bus Station. The similar journey provided by First Kernow is withdrawn. All other journeys operated by GCB remain unchanged.
The First Kernow Journey at 0719 (Schooldays) 0729 (School Holidays) St Austell Aldi – Truro will now commence from Trinity Street at 0706 (Schooldays), 0716 (School Holidays) |
First Kernow supported by Go Cornwall Bus. |
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28 |
Introduction of Sunday service between St Austell and Eden Project |
Travel Cornwall. Sundays operated by Go Cornwall Bus |
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30 |
No Planned Changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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31 |
No Planned changes |
Travel Cornwall |
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33 |
No Planned changes
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OTS |
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34 |
Pm timetable amended at accommodate changes of school times at Mullion School therefore the current journey departing Helston at 1440 will terminate at Mullion School on Schooldays. The service is rerouted within Redruth to serve Falmouth Rd, A393 and Westey Rd before Redruth Station. Journeys will depart Barncoose slightly earlier than the current timetable and follow the reverse of the above leaving Redruth |
Go Cornwall Bus
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35/A/63 |
No Planned changes |
OTS |
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36/A |
Revisions to school journeys AM and PM. The 36 journeys for Penair School will no longer divert via Devoran which will instead be served by service 36S |
Go Cornwall Bus
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36S |
Journeys for Penair School will start/end at Gwennap Church instead of Redruth and now serve Devoran in place of the service 36. Journeys for Redruth School are unchanged |
Go Cornwall Bus
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37 |
First journey to commence at Seven Stars instead of Tesco at 0845 to meet local requests |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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38 |
The current journey from Porthleven to Helston meeting service 34 for Cornwall College is withdrawn with the link to Cornwall College instead provided by the service departing Helston at 0735 and running via Porthleven before Sithney. Changes to the session times at Camborne S&I Academy result in the current 1455 journey from the school will depart at 1510 and terminate at Helston Seven Stars at 1544 |
Go Cornwall Bus
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39/A |
Changes to the session times at Camborne S&I Academy result in the current 1435 39A from Camborne running 15 minutes later throughout |
Go Cornwall Bus
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40 |
No significant change to timetable other than the 1750 from Redruth will terminate at Treliske Hospital |
Go Cornwall Bus
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42 |
No planned changes |
OTS |
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46 |
No planned changes
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Go Cornwall Bus |
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48/49 |
No planned changes to service 48 Service 49 will no longer operate services to/from Camborne S&I Academy from Black Rock. These journeys will now operate as 49S. This will provide additional capacity at school times and standardise the timetable for most journeys throughout the day |
Go Cornwall Bus
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50/51 |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus
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56 |
No significant changes to Monday to Friday other than to accommodate revised session times at Tretherras. School, but Saturdays will revert to off peak summer timetable with journeys running through to/from Padstow every 2 hours with links to Newquay Airport retained hourly |
Go Cornwall Bus
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58 |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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59/A |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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60 |
No planned changes |
OTS |
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63/64/65 |
No planned changes |
OTS |
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66/466 |
No planned changes |
OTS |
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67 |
No planned changes |
OTS |
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69/A |
No planned changes |
OTS |
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70/A/B |
Service renumbered so main service is 70 Additional PM journey added from Torpoint CC to Millbrook. Revised departure times from Plymouth between 1600 and 1825 to reduce the 1h 25 minute gap in timetable. Sunday service reduced to 2 hourly for winter period with the withdrawal of short journeys between HMS Raleigh and Plymouth |
Go Cornwall Bus
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71 |
Timetable adjusted during peak periods to improve reliability, with significant running time added |
Go Cornwall Bus
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72 |
Service renumbered 10 and timetable adjusted to provide 30 minute headway between Plymouth and Saltash with services 11 and 12 and hourly to Trerulefoot with service 11 |
Go Cornwall Bus
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72A |
This service between Plymouth & Saltash will be withdrawn. |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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73/A |
A completely revised timetable to provide improved links across Liskeard will be introduced. Service will operate 2 hourly on the 73 and 2 hourly on the 73A. This will maintain an hourly service between Duloe, Sandplace and Liskeard, via the Railway Station and the 73 will provide an hourly service between Looe and Polperro when combined with the 2 hourly service 10. 73A will continue to operate through to Polperro but will not serve Widegates running direct between Sandplace and Looe |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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74 |
Core 2 hourly service between Liskeard and Callington retained but retimed to connect with service 73 in Liskeard. This will provide a link from the Railway Station to places beyond Liskeard. Current journey which terminates at St Cleer have been extended to Pensilva, providing an hourly service between Liskeard, St Cleer and Pensilva. In Callington the service will continue to Tesco, St Dominick and Ashton. This enables most journeys on service 12 to now operate a more direct route. Additional journeys have been added later into the evening |
Go Cornwall Bus
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75 |
Minor timetable change – the 1745 from Torpoint will terminate at Widegates at 1835 |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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75A |
These two school journeys are now part of service 11 timetable |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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77 |
Timetable revised to provide an hourly headway between Liskeard to Trago Mills when combined with service 11 |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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78/A |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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79/A |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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84 |
No Planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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85 |
No significant changes other than providing additional journeys to serve Richard Lander School and retiming the 0700 from Truro accommodate session time changes at Tretherras School. Sunday service to continue as current timetable |
Go Cornwall Bus
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85 |
No planned changes |
Stagecoach SW |
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88 |
No planned changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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89 |
Section of route between Bodmin and St Columb Major removed due to very low use. New service 90 to operate two hourly from Wadebridge to Truro via St Columb Major improving connectivity from North Cornwall to Truro from services 11, 95 and 96 |
Go Cornwall Bus
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90 |
New service 90 to operate two hourly between Wadebridge and Truro |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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91 |
No planned changes |
First Kernow on Monday to Saturday and Go Cornwall Bus on Sundays |
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92 |
Service replaces the section of route between Wadebridge and Newquay currently on service 95. The service operates 2 hourly to provide an hourly headway between Wadebridge and St Columb Major with service 90. An hourly service us maintained between Newquay and St Columb Major and when combined with services 21 and 91, 3 buses per hour between St Columb Minor and Newquay |
Go Cornwall Bus
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93/94 |
No significant changes to these services |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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95 |
Revised timetable to provide better connections in Wadebridge to service to Truro and Newquay Winter timetable to be introduced from late October. |
Go Cornwall Bus
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96 |
The 06.50 from Bodmin to Camelford is withdrawn and from Camelford to Wadebridge is retimed. The 09.15 from Wadebridge is retimed 20 minutes later at 09.35 |
Go Cornwall Bus
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96A/B/S |
No planed changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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97/S |
Revised timetable between school times to reduce number of journeys currently offered in line with passenger demand.
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Go Cornwall Bus |
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128/129/218/ 219 |
Journeys on 129 which continue to Stratton Hospital and Kilkhampton will be renumbered 219 throughout to prevent customer confusion. Timetable to show 219 operating via Valley Road. The first journey from Poughill to Hartland will operate 5 minutes earlier to improve connections at Hartland with services to Bideford. |
Go Cornwall Bus
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220 |
No Planned Changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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223 |
No Planned Changes |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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304 |
No Planned Changes |
Hopley’s coaches |
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306 |
Removal of journey at 1530 between Launceston and Callywith (operates as 176) |
Go Cornwall Bus |
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315 |
No planned changes |
Hopley’s coaches |
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319 |
Amendments to improve reliability, additional journeys will also be added and an improved connection on the last journey with the 219 at Hartland. |
Stagecoach SW |
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371 |
No planned changes
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Go Cornwall Bus |
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372 |
No planned changes
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Go Cornwall Bus |
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373 |
No planned changes
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Go Cornwall Bus |
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405 |
No planned changes
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Travel Cornwall |
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423 |
No planned changes
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Travel Cornwall |
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425 |
No planned changes
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Travel Cornwall |
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426 |
Retime 15.25 from Launceston College between Menheniot Crescent and Langdon Cross to prevent bus waiting time. No other changes |
Go Cornwall Bus
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450-455 |
Following customer feedback some services will be revised including provision of journeys from Menheniot to Liskeard on a second day of the week and revision of the current Quethiock journeys to serve Liskeard instead of Saltash.
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Saltash Red Bus |
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481/482 |
No planned changes
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Travel Cornwall |
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484/485/493/494/495/496 Truro City Services |
No planned changes
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Travel Cornwall |
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Lands' End Coaster |
From 1st Oct this service will only operate between Penzance and Lands End for the Winter Period. |
First Kernow
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Sunseeker, Atlantic Coaster and Falmouth Coaster |
From the 1st October these services will not operate for the winter period |
First Kernow
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G1/2/3 |
No planned changes
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Gorran Bus |
Plymouth
Citybus have published an update on their plans – with very limited changes by the look of it:
Plymouth Citybus are focused on delivering a reliable bus service in Plymouth. Over the past 12 months we have seen changes in traffic volumes whilst people settle into new routines. We have seen peak time traffic extended, meaning we need to make changes to bus timetables from September.
The only change to a bus route will be the removal of the loop around William Prance Road on the 42 service.
There will be no reduction in service levels.
For updates to our timetables please keep an eye out on our social media and website towards the end of August.
Devon
It is very clear from the service registrations that are starting to appear that Devon will see quite a few new timetables. However nothing is publicly available yet from what I can see. There are a few changes that will appear here over the weekend so watch this space
It's poor cornwall that suffers again, compared to plymouth.
ReplyDeletePCB/TFC , GCB or what ever name cornwalls buses have this week.
Can't leave well enough alone.
The changes to the 11, okay if one gets cancelled you end up waiting 4 hours for the next one. The same with the 70s on sundays
they say hourly Trerulefoot to PLY but who wants to go there?
Could have put buses through St Germans then up to Trerulefoot but chose to not give St Germans a service,
Which incidentally has a half hourly train service,
it could connect into.
The buses are busier then ever with the advent of the £2/ soon to be £2.50 fare.
They want us to use the buses and at the same time, make them so they are not able to be relied a pon.
We can't use or lose a service if they take it away when we try to back them.
It was clear in the beginning that PCB extending into cornwall was a bad idea,
Just look at the mess they made of north devon.
Instead of maximising profits, by cutting routes.
They should focus on
A reliable network and people will give up cars for the bus.
I hope i'm not the only one angry about changes to the 11 route.
Plymouth Citybus Ltd (which is Plymouth Citybus plus GoCornwall) made a £111,000 loss for the year to June 2022, so there's no "maximising profits" about it. And that's without the worst effects of inflation and Ukraine-induced fuel price increases. Expect this year to be an even greater loss.
DeleteEver since Go Southwest have taken over Cornwall the service has been in decline and reliability has also got worse. Why dont they think more logically about things and improve connectivity and reduce the servive numbers. For a start get rid of the 74 completely and just run the 73 from Callington/St Dominick directly to Polperro. Service 11 to Bodmin for connnections to Padstow. Service 75 and 78 reinstate and run from Liskeard station to provide more bus/train connections to Torpoint/Rame,Liskeard town and Launceston. Service 12 run direct to Callington Launceston and Bude and have a service 12A running via Stoke Climsland to Launceston. It is very sad that places like St Germans and Menheniot which once had a service now have nothing whilst Liskeards direct link to Saltash reduces to bare minimum. GSW need to realise its about what the customer wants and needs and not what they want. If they cant run the service or dont want to run it efficiently then maybe they need to return the routes and let another operator take them on. Compare this to Plymouth where no reductions are happening. As a fare paying customer who frequent uses the 11,73 and occasionally 75 services I am discusted of how Liskeard has been treated. I will now be either using the train or car in future. I realise this is quite negative but so many people depend on these services.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the service still better than when First previously ran the contracted ones, such as on Lizard still far more frequent with better evening & Sundays? It is a rural area with few passengers in many areas.
DeleteSo unfortunately, it's not actually GSW who make the rules on the Cornwall services, it's met by the demand on Cornwall Council. If GSW numbers show a lack of passenger use between stops, then there will be changes to routes based on that - however i don't understand the route number changes, which lets be honest have happened far too frequently of late. If GSW don't deem the 11 suitable, then they either need to remove it - or make sure connections to train stations along the route are sufficiently covered, as the only alternative is to use the train. I do agree with comments above about Routes and Numbering, but in some cases, routes are split to ensure connectivity and to reduce congestion affecting routes as much - something the 11 and 12 have always suffered from, with being long routes.
ReplyDeleteReading the above comments I wonder how many people realise just how good a bus service Cornwall has compared with other rural areas. Maybe they'll only appreciate what they had when it disappears. Unless you've been living under a stone for the past couple of years you'll realise that Bus operators and local authorities everywhere are in big trouble. The operators are barely staying afloat and councils have an ever decreasing amount of money to financially support services.
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