Service 22/22A: Gyle Centre - Granton Harbour
Service 22: Mon-Fri daytime frequency reduced to every 30 minutes. No change to Sat-Sun service.
Service 22A: Mon-Fri daytime service introduced between Gyle Centre & Granton Harbour via South Gyle Crescent operating every 30 minutes coordinating with Service 22 to provide a 15 minute frequency. The early morning journeys between Lothian Road & Gyle Centre will continue to operate.
The main problem I see is that the 22 barely even has enough demand to be every 20min, so every 15min is a far stretch. There’s annoyingly not really any easy way to implement a day 22A service without either making the timetables really weird or running buses too frequently (unless they ran both hourly every day with some extra journeys at peak times, but let’s be real, that’s probably a lot more effort than really necessary).
Service 70: Hermiston Park & Ride - Edinburgh Park Station
Service71: Queensferry - Edinburgh Park Station
Services 70 & 71 extended from Gyle Centre to Edinburgh Park Station, Service 70 early morning & late evening journeys continue to terminate at Gyle Centre.
That would make the 70/71 even less reliable than they are now, the 70’s pretty reliable though the 71 is far from.
Service 72: Livingston Bus Terminal - Kirkliston, Kirklands Park Street
Revised Route: Route now operates between Livingston & Kirkliston only.
Revised Timetable: Mon-Sat daytime frequency increased to every 30 minutes with earlier and later journeys added on all days.
Fair, though I think it should maybe be half hourly to Winchburgh Campus at the furthest.
Service 73: Blackridge - Livingston Bus Terminal
Revised Route: extended from Bathgate to Blackridge via Bathville & Armadale, Wester Inch & Blackburn no longer served by Service 73.
Revised Timetable: Mon-Sat frequency remians hourly with new Sunday service introduced with earlier and later journeys added on all days.
Service 74: Fauldhouse, Post Office - Livingston Bus Terminal Via West Calder
Revised Timetable: Mon-Sat daytime frequency increased to every 30 minutes with earlier and later journeys added on all days. Service 74 will continue to interwork with Service 73 with every second journey waiting at Livingston before returning to Fauldhouse.
I think it should be the other way around, the 73 is much busier than the 74 in my many experiences on them, so I’d say the 74 can run via the current Sunday timetable on all days of the week (with several tweaks of course) then have the 73 do it’s own thing at a half-hourly frequency.
Service 75: Fauldhouse, Post Office - Livingston Bus Terminal Via Blackburn
Renumbered 72 route between Fauldhouse & Livingston, revised route to serve St. John's Hospital operating Hourly Monday to Sunday with earlier journeys added.
Service 75 will not interwork with Service 72.
I think the X27 would be a better replacement.
Service 76: Bathgate, Rail Station - Livingston South Station
Via: Wester Inch, Blackburn, Livingston Village, St. John's Hospital, Howden, Livingston Centre, Dedridge East & Murieston.
Frequency: Every 60 Minutes
Days of Operation: Monday to Saturday
Provides Livingston Village with a bus service, Replaces Service 73 between Bathgate & Blackburn, From Dedridge East route will operate a one way loop via Murieston Road, Bellsquarry South Road & Alderstone Road to Livingston South Station.
Not a bad idea, basically just a shorter 21.
Service X20: Ratho, Hallcroft Park - Edinburgh, Regent Road
Based off previous proposals on this thread.
Route operates via Dalmahoy, Hermiston P&R, Sighthill, Gorgie, Dalry & Haymarket
Frequency: Every 60 Minutes (Additional journeys Mon-Fri peak)
Days of Operation: Monday to Sunday
Limited Stop: All stops from Hallcroft Park to Staughton Mains then only at Chesser House, Gorgie Park Road, Stewart Terrace, Dalry Primary School & Haymarket Station then all X18/X19 stops to Regent Road.
I’d maybe have it stop at Gorgie City Farm instead of Dalry Primary School & Stewart Terrace.
Thought I’d share more proposals I came up with;
Lothian;
2: extended to Gyle Centre Mon-Sat via Lochside Crescent to aid capacity on service 22 between the Gyle & Balgreen.
5: Service extended to Torphin via Redford & Colinton to reflect customer demand.
9: Service rerouted to Ocean Terminal via Bonnington Road & North Junction Street.
10: Service rerouted via Leith Walk & Great Junction Street to aid capacity on Leith Walk.
15: Service extended to Penicuik Town Centre via Auchendinny.
16: Service curtailed to Oxgangs Library. Service 5 will continue to serve Redford, Colinton, & Torphin.
25: Frequency increased to every 10min Mon-Sat. Most journeys will terminate at Waterloo Place, with buses running to Restalrig every 30min daily & every 40min in the evenings.
30: Frequency reduced to every 15min Mon-Sat & every 20min on Sundays. All off-peak & weekend journeys curtailed to Fort Kinnaird West, with peak journeys running along the A1 to Queen Margaret University.
32: Service curtailed from Balerno to Gyle Centre to improve reliability. Service 70 will continue to provide links between The Gyle & Balerno.
33: Service rerouted from Saughton Mains via Longstone Depot, Hailesland Road, Westside Plaza, & Baberton to Clovenstone Gardens.
34; Weekday journeys will now run via weekend route via Riccarton Mains Road & The Avenue.
35; weekday journeys will run via weekend route off peak. Morning peak journeys to Heriot-Watt & evening peak journeys to Ocean Terminal will run via Riccarton Research Park will run as service 35A.
38: Service curtailed to Western General Hospital due to relatively low passenger usage on Crewe Road North. Service 22 will continue to serve Crewe Road North & Waterfront Broadway.
47B: Service renumbered to service 47A to stay in line with 22A & 35A.
X31: New hourly Mon-Sat daytime service introduced to provide Rosewell with a bus service into Edinburgh.
LothianCountry;
X19: Service reduced to every 60min daily off-peak due to low customer usage. Buses will interwork with new service X20 at Waterloo Place. I know reducing service levels isn’t great for competition, but I think Lothian should prioritise improving other areas in West Lothian.
X20: New service between Halcroft Park & Waterloo Place via Hermiston P&R & Gorgie every 60min daily. Service will interwork with service X19 at Waterloo Place.
X27: Frequency increased to every 30min Mon-Sat. Service rerouted from Livingston Centre via old 72 route to Whitburn Town Centre, then via West Main Street to Whitburn West End.
X28: Service increased to every 30min Mon-Sat.
70: Service extended from Gyle Centre to Balerno via 32 route, providing weekend services between Balerno & Hermiston Gait/The Gyle. Service curtailed to Halcroft Park in Ratho so that the service doesn’t double over itself at Hermiston P&R.
71: Buses will no longer interwork with service 70 to allow for timetable changes to improve reliability.
72: Service curtailed to Livingston Centre, with service X27 & new 75 replacing western half.
73: Frequency increased to every 30min Mon-Sat with new hourly Sunday service introduced. Service extended to Armadale from Bathgate via Bathville. Buses will then split to provide an hourly service to Blackridge Mon-Sat, & an hourly service daily to Honeyman Court.
75: New service between Fauldhouse & Bathgate Station via Whitburn, Blackburn, & Wester Inch, running every 60min Mon-Sat.
EastCoastBuses;
X4: Frequency reduced to every hour daily.
X6: Daytime service reintroduced every hour daily. Service rerouted to Haymarket via X4 route. From A1, buses will omit Wallyford, rejoining current route at Dolphinestone Flyover.
124: Service rerouted between Levenhall & Johnny Cope Stone via B1348, Ayres Wynd, Preston Road, & Schaw Road to provide better links between the top & bottom ‘pans.’
PVR changes;
2: 8 > 9
5: 8 > 9
9: Unchanged
10: Unchanged
15: Unchanged
16: 18(?) > 15(?)
25: 17(?) > 15(?)
30: 18(?) > 14
32: 2 > 1
33: Unchanged
34: Unchanged
35/A
: Unchanged
38: 8 > 7
47/A
: Unchanged
X31: 3 > 5
X19: 5 > ~2
X20: 0 > ~2
X27: 7(?) > 8
X28: 8(?) > 10
70: ~2 > 2
71: ~2 > 2
72: 5 > 3
73: ~2 > 5
74: ~2 > 2
75: 0 > 2
X4: 5 > ~3
X6: 3 > ~3
124: Unchanged
Central: ±0 (+1 SD, -1 DD)
Marine: +1 (+1 DD)
Longstone: -8 (-2 SD, -6 DD)
Livingston: +6 (+6 DD)
Musselburgh: +1 (+1 DD)
As for fleet changes, I’ll leave that up to you guys.
especully when other operators are doing that job well enough, just keep them on the edge with Whitburn and Fauldhouse and it should be fine!
