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I'd like to see an all-day X52 but I'm not sure if there would be demand, the few times I've used it (at peak times) it has had good loads but then again I caught the number 5 from Ferrytoll to the Leisure Park last month which runs a very similar route and it was absolutely dead.

New Yutong E12s 5087, 5088, 5089 and 5091 are out on their first day of service today, on service 1.

I wonder how much longer it'll last? Surely it can't be making the revenue they want it to if they keep cutting the operating hours, raising the fares and trying to increase its catchment area. The stopping pattern is almost identical to the 100 now, albeit the AIRX additionally calls at Princes...

I just passed East Dock Street depot on an M9 coach and noticed at least one of the new U11DDs has been delivered. Unfortunately I couldn't see which one.

I agree that any Ratho to city centre route should operate via the A71. The A8 corridor is flooded with buses, the A71 corridor less so, yet it's still a busy corridor with plenty of demand. An additional bus an hour wouldn't help overcrowding that much but it would be likely to pick up plenty...

Thought I'd chime in with my recent ideas for service changes at Lothian Country. 72 | Fauldhouse - Whitburn - Blackburn - Eliburn - St John’s Hospital - Livingston Every 30 minutes, four vehicles required. Service 72 truncated to operate only between Fauldhouse and Livingston to improve...

Surely one of the simplest reopenings would be Grangemouth? The line is already electrified and Glasgow Queen Street to Falkirk Grahamston services turn around on the Grangemouth branch line already. You'd perhaps even be able to reopen without any additional train units needed as the Queen...

I was able to sample 50534 today between Forth Valley and Dunfermline and I'd have to agree - a massive upgrade. Smooth, comfortable, quiet, a much-needed increase in capacity and a welcome improvement in accessibility thanks to the low floor of the lower deck. I heard several passengers...

Honestly I think Dumbiedykes could be better served if an existing service was rerouted to run along Pleasance. The 14 would perhaps be the ideal candidate.

I took the 60 from Haymarket to Holyrood the other day at 5pm and I was the only passenger.

They seem to be using three formats of destination screen at the moment, the original 'fast to Airport' and 'fast to City' screens without anything in the route number spot, a format with 'AIRX' in the route number spot and either 'City' or 'Airport' and another with 'Airport Express' in the...

Yeah I'll echo everyone else's responses - a duplicate of the X38 shouldn't be the priority when the Livingston local services are crying out for improvements. The 72 appears to still be regularly running late between Livingston and Fauldhouse - it's clear the service needs a new timetable and...

I don't believe their single fares are published anywhere. They do exist though, I've bought singles on their services before. However the only way to know how much they are is to ask the driver on the journey. The £4.45 ticket is the evening saver, not a single ticket. From what I can tell...

Generally poor from my observations. I noticed some healthy loadings during the festival but now I rarely see buses with anything greater than half occupancy. It does make sense to cut back the early morning journeys as from what I've seen they tend to be absolutely dead. To be honest, I don't...

Judging by how basic the technology is at the moment (can only operate in autonomous mode on the motorway in good weather during the day and mostly using a segregated bus lane) I doubt any vehicle will be able to operate between Ferrytoll and Dunfermline without a driver any time soon. The...

The council would be out of their mind to award the 13 to McGill’s, given their poor track record with the 20, 63 and 68. I believe that during its last week of operation by McGill’s there were several days where the 68 did not run at all, which McGill’s did not publicise anywhere - they've long...

I personally like the idea of turning the AB1 into an Edinburgh peripheral service by extending it at the northern end to Dunfermline and at the southern end through to destinations in west and south Edinburgh like the Gyle Centre, Bankhead industrial estate, Sighthill colleges, Heriot-Watt and...

This is why the two brands exist. Services that run through the core are branded as Thameslink. Services that do not are branded as Great Northern, that way customers can easily differentiate which services run through London. There is a couple of exceptions to the former of course, but by and...

There was a lane closure at Haymarket yesterday, ended up delaying the 2 I was on by 35 minutes which was not very enjoyable!

There's nothing wrong with ensuring staff know for sure which buses are electric. As for it being a marketing gimmick, I doubt any regular passengers ever notice the fleet number of a bus when boarding or alighting, let alone potential passengers. 291-294 are a microfleet that stick out like a...