September drags on

The last week has seen more late notices coming through, all for changes that happened at the start of September!

Dealtop Ltd Dartine

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH0005305.092	COLY3	Polsloe, St Marks Church	Colyton Grammar School	05-Sep-2024	vary route and timetable (V1)
PH0005305.091	COLY4	Aylesbeare, Nineoaks bus stop	Colyford, The Elms Bus stop	05-Sep-2024	vary route and timetable (V1)
PH0005305.072	COLY5	Exeter, Buckerall Lodge	Colyford, The Elms Bus Stop	05-Sep-2024	route and timetable change (V1)
PH0005305.082	COLY7	EXETER ST DAVID'S TRAIN STATION STOP B	COLYTON - THE ELMS BUS STOP	05-Sep-2024	Timetable change (V1)
PH0005305.071	COLY9	Exeter, Sidwell Street	Colyton Grammar School	05-Sep-2024	variation to timetable (V1)
PH0005305.086	COLY11	Lympstone, Saddlers Arms	Colyford, The Elms Bus Stop	05-Sep-2024	timetable change
PH0005305.074	TG003	A3052, Clyst St Mary	Torquay Grammar School	03-Sep-2024	Timetable and route variation

The only other one was for Go Cornwall, but this was also for a month ago!

Plymouth Citybus Ltd Go Cornwall

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH0000135.277	96	Camelford , Methodist church	Wadebridge	11-Sep-2024	Revise timetable to end 1240 ex Bodmin SD journey at Wadebridge school. Replaced by service 11

It would be nice to think that we are done with September changes, but just today we have had another batch, all for changes that have already happened. (These will appear here in due course)

Meanwhile

As a follow up to last weeks story 

Transport for Cornwall partnership will be reinstating the monthly child bus pass

3 days ago Fri 4th Oct 2024

Transport for Cornwall update: Following feedback from passengers, the Transport for Cornwall partnership will be reinstating the ability to purchase a monthly child bus pass from Sunday 6 October.

The cost of the pass will now be £65 and we hope to be able to keep the cost of the ticket at this price for the rest of the academic year.

Government funding for the bus fares pilot, introduced in April of 2022 , has meant we have been able to heavily subsidise more than 15 million bus journeys in the last 2.5 years and without this funding, passengers would have paid significantly more for their tickets. The funding has allowed us to also try new ticket options and prices, to understand the preference of bus passengers in Cornwall.  It was always intended to increase the cost of tickets during the pilot and back to their market value as we near the end of the pilot.

While the decision to remove several ticketing options – including the child monthly pass - was based on data showing extremely low usage, we appreciate that this specific ticket has impacted on children who use bus services to travel to school and college, but are not eligible for home to school transport.

We remain in discussion with Government about the future funding of bus travel in Cornwall and await news of any future bus funding as part of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement at the end of the month. The Government’s national £2 bus fares scheme for single journeys remains in place until the end of December.