It's been bad since the taxi rank moved to Penarth Road. Not very good but the insistence on bus/rail interchange here trumps everything.
Most trips on the T6 are amended. Mon-Fri are amended mostly by a few minutes. Earlier first buses to/from Swansea by an hour. Last bus off Swansea is 10 minutes earlier.
They just deregistered the service for the end of the contract, a new registration will be made for the service as the service is fully funded by TFW instead of going through the councils
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11 new single deckers, will these be electric I wonder? With the Welsh Government having some fairly ambitious targets for an entirely zero-emission bus fleet it seems a bit late in the day to be ordering more diesel buses. Also, does this mean the T3 no longer justifies the double deckers that were bought for it a while ago or will the new buses operate alongside the existing double-decks?Lloyds Coaches
COMING SOON... Lloyds Coaches are pleased to announce that they have been successful in bidding for the new contracts for TrawsCymru services T2 and T3 This includes an investment in 11 brand new...
I shared that FB post to a bus group with a query about the new vehicles. 11x MCV Evora was one reply I got.
I assume given that Wikipedia (and its cited articles) don't mention anything eco-electric, that it's a regular diesel bus.
So I'm guessing the T3 will operated direct via Druid and Llanfor, along the A494, and the T3C will connect at either Corwen or Bala - but presumably not both, otherwise there'd be no timesaving?
I was wondering how this might work. Personally, I'd hope the T3C would connect with the T3 at (or close to) either end of the route. Otherwise, someone wanting to travel between one of the Western villages and Dolgellau would have to change at Corwen, presumably extending journeys considerably.
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I thought tendered services weren't allowed to compete with commercial ones?
The rules seem kind of irrelevant and don't apply to Traws Cymru. Other areas have been touched on before so I won't go into it unless the conversation goes that way. With the T12 though, this diversions brings absolutely zero to the route other than extraction from a commercial route.
A few buses I think were outstationed in Wrexham, but with journeys commencing/ending in Corwen, has an outstation opened there?The T3C is meant to be connecting at Corwen with late evening services being a T3C throughout. The timetable was a complete mess when it went out to tender.
Sorry, can't send them in a table format. For those using screen readers, the attached photos are of the T3/T3C timetable that went out to tender.
In short, reduced at the Wrexham end, enhanced at the Barmouth end. T3C only providing connections at Corwen.
In another bit of Traws Cymru news, once again, they are trying to take over by duplicating over COMMERCIAL routes as the T12 will divert via Gobowen and St Martin's (over Arriva 2 and 53). I put it to everyone that Welsh Taxpayers are paying significant sums of money in a transport network which is ultimately there to kill off the commercial bus network so that they can subsequently build a case for franchising. They haven't the money to fully take over so kill off demand for local routes with the competing TrawsCymru and then suddenly 'save' the routes, funding the routes themselves and then using that to boost the public control arguement. There is no other reason for diverting via Gobowen and St Martin's!
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T12 CHANGES - MONDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER Minor timetable changes - please check carefully Will now serve Gobowen railway station Will now serve St Martin's The 0731 Machynlleth to Newtown...
No outstation in Corwen. Two buses are currently allocated in Wrexham.
Them tenders haven't gone out yet
Would the new tenders include new buses? Don't get me wrong, the T5 & T11 Tempos are great but they are 17 years old and are really showing their age. When would these next tenders be released?
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I wonder if the T22 timetable has been finalised yet?Bit of news is that the T22 Blaenau Ffestiniog - Porthmadog - Caernarfon service will be operated by Llew Jones from the new depot in Porthmadog (Depot is pushing it a bit but anyway).
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October 2023 - Read more and apply for this Electric Vehicle Bus Service PCV Driver job in Porthmadog with Llew Jones Limited on Jobs in North Wales
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2 of the buses have been spotted so far, these being CE72YRN and CE72YRP (Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthWalesBuses/posts/7667428586606454/ Not sure if this works as it's in a Facebook group)
The indicative timetable was issued here, but that was on the basis of the route being operated out of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Some very tight, or very long connections indicated at the bottom of the columns.
The T22 will replace the 3B service.
Hopefully there will be more early and late services compared to the indicative timetable previously shared, otherwise it'll represent a bit of a downgrade compared to the 3B.
Indeed I did. Quite possibly in the National Transport Delivery Plan (page 64) which also mentions hydrogen buses for the T6. Why the contradition between that document and the more-recent press release?
