There’s an enigma in Labour’s stance on Ipswich Buses. The Labour Party knows that if the buses remain in municipal hands without any help, then as the second smallest bus operator in the country they will be susceptible to a strike from First Group. First Group could, as it has done to other small operators, [...]
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the archives for the travel category
10 Feb 10
Ipswich Buses at the Maidenhall Residents Association
Malcolm Robson, who is in charge of Ipswich Buses will be at the Maidenhall Residents Association (at the bowls hut on Halifax Road) at 7.00 to answer questions about the buses.
If you are not from the Maidenhall Estate please respect the fact that this will be primarily a committee meeting of the Residents Association.
29 Jan 10
Ipswich Underground resources
One of the most frequent searches I get is for the Ipswich Underground.
I’m not really how I can say this nicely but IT NEVER EXISTED.
However here are some links:
The Ipswich Star discussion
A transport forum discusses this
The Flickr group
And the page that started the whole thing
26 Jan 10
A step towards decent buses on Wherstead Road
A pioneering agreement in Oxford may be able to offer hope to people on Wherstead Road. Wherstead Road is plagued by sporadic bus services, which would be far more tolerable if they were properly spaced out. Under typically stupid European Union rules this cannot be changed because there are a number of different operators on the [...]
18 Jan 10
Ipswich Buses: Chris Mole could stop it
The Council runs a bus service. They want to sell it off. There is a big local campaign led by the local (and under threat) Labour MP. The government minister in charge says that while sympathetic, there’s nothing he wants to do, saying that it’s up to councils.
But it’s not Ipswich, it’s Plymouth. And the [...]
11 Jan 10
Ipswich buses sell off to Go Ahead – The Trade Press
The bus trade press have a rather dry piece on the sell off, without mentioning the crucial part played by Chris Mole. Apart from that it is the same old stuff, John Carnell saying that Ipswich Buses is too small and David Ellesmere saying that Ipsiwch Buses should never be sold off and anyway its [...]
11 Jan 10
Gritted road routes in Ipswich
The gritting routes have now been published. To find them follow these instructions.
1. Go here:
http://suffolk.elgin.gov.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=streetworks.streetworksMap&layers=streetworks
2. Go to the “Zoom To” box
3. Choose Postcode
4. Enter your full postcode
5. On the left hand side scroll down until you get the Highway Network folder and then choose the salting routes box
If you are on a purple route you [...]
8 Jan 10
Ipswich Buses Sell Off: The shadow boxing continues
Thank you to Andrew Coates for pointing out the Labour Party’s response. They’re still saying “we’re against the sell off, but it’s not the right time”. I wonder if there were heated discussions before that equivocation came up. They must think they’ve got a chance of winning next year if they are saying “not yet” [...]
5 Jan 10
Ipswich Buses, the Tories respond
At last the Tories respond on the potential sale of the stake in Ipswich Buses to the Go-Ahead group. Obviously it’s partisan, mercilessly mocking Labour on their three positions on bus privatisation (nationally for, locally both adamantly against and saying maybe but not yet). That’s to be expected, after all with Chris Mole as the [...]
2 Jan 10
Ipswich buses goes international
Well, it’s actually on an Irish transport forum:
http://garaiste.yuku.com/topic/10119/t/And-now-Ipswich-.html
What’s striking about all of these comments from outside Ipswich is the sense of inevitability of stand alone operators being subsumed and the advantages of taking advantage of the expertise and capital of a larger group.
It would still be a shame if we lost the local control that [...]
