[milton-chat] Sunday bus service 19

[Paul Oldham]

On 16/02/07 11:16 hmc at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk wrote:

> If the 19 wasn't the "secret bus", maybe more people would use it?
> 
> Seriously, is there a way of getting the timetable onto all the bus stops
> in Milton?  I know it's indirectly on the village website, but a lot of
> people may not think of looking there, whereas, while waiting for a bus
> during the week, people may peruse the timetables at the stops and assume
> there is no Sunday bus service as the information is just not there. 

I think you raised this with the parish council and we included it in 
our comments on the consultation. Whether anything will come of it is 
another matter mind you.

Thinking about it I suppose the problems is that the timetable boards, 
where they exist (I only really use the Waggon and Horses stop so I 
don't know what's at the other stops) will be updated by SCambus not the 
County and they've no interest in advertising a service they don't run. 
Similarly Burton Coaches, who run the 19, make their money from the 
county not the passengers.

Are you interested in doing some work on improving this situation? If 
you were and could do some research: find out which stops have timetable 
boards, who owns them, who has access to them etc, then I'm sure parish 
council would be interested in your recommendations as to what could be 
done to improve things. We could, for example, put up our own timetable 
boards, especially as we own the bus shelters! We could also put up 
simpler easier to read timetables as they could be stop specific.

(Sorry, this is normally the sort of project I'd do myself but I'm a bit 
overwhelmed with saving the Park right now.)
-- 
Paul