Sorry for the short notice.  I got this through from Ipswich Buses:

Alan Pilbeam, MD of First is doing a presentation to the Ipswich Transport Society tonight at Bridge Ward Social Club in Austin St, at 1930. Public can attend for an entrance fee of £2.50
 
I will be there (although I’m coming from London so this will be at the mercy of the trains).  There should also be a couple of people from Wherstead Road who want to talk about the curtailing of Route 66.  If you’re coming then please email me at james@bridgeward.org.uk or find me at the meeting.

Here’s a picture of the route 66 bus, taken today.

Sadly there are no passengers as although many of them park at Bourne Bridge as they can’t park at the station.

What a waste, if they could only stop on a couple of these journeys life would be easy.  After all over the last couple of years by providing a good service First Eastern Counties created a market for their services on Wherstead Road. 

Since the Route 66 bus service has been discontinued Wherstead Road has had to make do with village services going into Ipswich town center.  This has caused a number of problems:

• Infrequent services – one an hour if you’re lucky
• Unreliable services not keeping with timetables
• Few seats by the time the busses get to Wherstead Road
• More cars on the road
• No disabled access on the tiny busses

This has got to stop.  It may be hard to get money out of the government, especially as Chris Mole is now the minister for transport, but this can’t go on.