bus service

Grant Palmer pull out of contract tender for bus route due to “relationship breakdown”

A local bus operator has revealed it pulled out of a recent Bedford Borough Council contract tender due to a breakdown in its working relationship with the authority. Last week's Environment and...

Council should do more to help with bus timetables across Borough says councillor

A Bedford Borough cllr had said the council should get bus operators to “clock-face” bus schedules as residents are complaining about buses turning up within minutes of each other...

Have your say on Stagecoach services in Bedford and Cambridgeshire

Bus users are being asked for their views on several Stagecoach East routes, including the 905 between Bedford and Cambridge. Customer opinions are being asked on the 905 between Bedford and Cambridge...

Letters: “Sporadic service” led to low custom on 21 bus

Re: your article of 26 September ‘Grant Palmer blames “low custom” for withdrawal of Brickhill bus service’. Most of the "low custom" on this route has been due to the sporadic service over the...

Opinion: Public transport in Wixams is making my depression significantly worse

Trainee journalist, Jo Fay, shares her experience of living in Wixams, relying on public transport and the impact it has had on her mental health. I have been living in...

Letters: Never mind the Bus Station, what about the loss of our Ox-Cam services?

Reading a recent post about the unsavoury nature of the Bus Station I recently visited to look myself. For sure there's no comparison between the reasonable railway station...

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