Christmas and New Year Services: The Reckoning

[Mayneway]

RE: Christmas and New Year Services: The Reckoning

(02/01/2015 16:05)Enviro400 Wrote:  At my local bus stop there has been a notice printed on the timetable since the end of October regarding changes to Avon services as of 8th December. If they can print these for individual services, surely they can print a generic 'Check out our website or ask at the bus station' sort of message when they awknowledge that there will be special Christmas Day buses and revised timetables for Boxing Day etc.

Again apologies as this seems to be based on Merseyside but I'm fairly sure here in Greater Manchester where timetables are available timetables are listed for weekday, Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday's. On the bottom of the bank holiday timetable it does state 'excludes Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day'.
I'm fairly certain the current TFGM printed timetables also state in them somewhere about bank holidays excluding these three dates so it's actually clearly available all year round.

Having said that when I was travelling to work on New Year's Day (in my expensive taxi!) I actually saw three different groups of passengers waiting at bus stops for buses that wouldn't be turning up! But having said all that even on official service/timetable change dates it's surprising how many regular bus users actually get caught out by the changes. In my opinion you can have notices at every bus stop and on every bus and there will still be punters who completly miss them.

As for travel apps. Most under 18's would probably argue that having any sort of travel app on your phone or tablet is as uncool as collecting stamps