Arriva UK bus sells West Yorkshire operator to Transdev Blazefield This Summer, there will be a change of ownership for Yorkshire Tiger. It was announced today [Thursday 15 April 2021] that Arriva UK Bus have decided to sell their Yorkshire Tiger operation to Transdev Blazefield. The sale includes its two depots in Elland and Waterloo […]
Read More Transdev Takes Over Yorkshire TigerA fun little article on How to brand or rebrand our bus routes One of the key parts of the Department for Transport’s National Bus Strategy is local branding based on community focus instead of operational needs. At present, there are some examples of best practice with Transdev and The Go-Ahead Group marketing its bus […]
Read More Fun With Bus Route BrandingThis month’s reopened window on the shop windows For the second time this year, our window on the Tameside shop windows has been delayed. There is a good reason for this, we have deferred this month’s edition to tie in with this coming Monday’s events. Confused? Well you shouldn’t be, because on Monday 12 April […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, April 2021: The Ashton Review of ShopsForthcoming service changes for Oldham and Saddleworth bus passengers For Oldham’s bus passengers, there is little to report in April’s changes compared with Tameside’s changes. Stagecoach’s mere tinkering around the edges only affects one route.
Read More Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 11 April 2021As one hospital link closes, another one opens Renumbered 397 extended to North Manchester General Hospital; Little Gem (Mark II) increases Tameside presence on TfGM tendered routes; 217 reverts to being Ashton-under-Lyne to Manchester route; Timetable changes for Stagecoach routes with cuts to 336, 337 and 389 services. The Spring 2021 changes are a bit […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 11 April 2021EXCLUSIVE: Multi-Million Private Sector capital scheme to transform Mossley and Saddleworth The pandemic has been disastrous for our hospitality industry. Pubs have been closed for over a year with some facing depubification. With Brexit in full swing and many countries off limits to Britons thanks to COVID-19, the British tourism industry have changed the definition […]
Read More New Ski Resort Set to Bolster Tameside TourismIs the future orange and white or pink with yellow spots? Unless we know different by the end of May, we shall be bracing ourselves for a new era of franchised bus operations by 2025. There will be endless chat on social media and blogs as to what bus routes will change, the fares, the […]
Read More What Colour for Greater Manchester’s BusesMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham goes for Bus Franchising Scheme Nearly four years after he was elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham stuck to his pledge to reform Greater Manchester’s buses. Following a second consultation, he made his announcement at 1440 beside Stand E of Ashton-under-Lyne Interchange. The Free Trade Experiment with […]
Read More Franchised Buses Get The Green LightFeast of the M60 reviews Heck’s latest sausage sensation ALDI, Stalybridge, 1.45 pm: thanks to the third lockdown and one of my parents shielding till the 1st April, I have been charged with doing the big shop. After falling out of love with trudging heavy bags from Morrisons, I discovered ALDI – thanks to being […]
Read More A Brazen Banger: Heck’s Feck SausagesWith the possibility of bus franchising in Greater Manchester and improved local networks, has the government fallen in love with our buses? There are four things that the creator of this blog shares with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, otherwise known as Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP. One of them is a lackadaisical approach to […]
Read More Bus Back Better: Towards a Second Bus Renaissance?
