tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post4482452659438473308..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: £91 Million Beautiful Busway? Worth it? [5]fatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-10281268772418968592013-10-23T14:00:58.202+01:002013-10-23T14:00:58.202+01:00Thank you for these comments. The key to finding s...Thank you for these comments. The key to finding station and busway is that Dwarfer1979 had previous expereince. I caught a bus into the town centre from afar having left from the interchange and the route between there and the town had no signposts and was not obvious; of course it is easy when you know! The provision of a map of all departure points displayed at EVERY town centre stop is an obvious and simple solution. This was needed even before the busway appeared.fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-19692951590228682322013-10-23T08:54:00.733+01:002013-10-23T08:54:00.733+01:00Not sure about the not well used, I know two of th...Not sure about the not well used, I know two of the three operators on the Busway have been pleasantly surprised by the rapid take-up for the Busway services. It may be a little quiet from some of the stops on the Busway (the traditional main road routes have been reduced but are still running on decent frequencies so it may take a while for passengers to grasp the offer of the Busway from these stops) but services B & C have seen an excellent take-up in new passengers taking advantage of fast direct buses from the estates of Dunstable to Luton Town Centre, the E is also showing positive signs helped by the fact the Busway has allowed the operator to double the frequency with the same number of buses which pretty much means any growth is a positive effect (don't know how Arriva are doing as I don't have the contacts).<br /><br />Not sure about the difficult to find from the Town Centre, if you are a stranger coming in to town surely you would have arrived at the Station in the first place and if you get to the Silver Street exit of The Mall (following the clear signposts elsewhere in the Town Centre) it is a very recognisable straight walk from there to the station that you would have followed to get into town in the first place, if you are in any way local you know where the station is anyway (I suspect that if they remove the builders hoardings you may even be able to see the station from Silver Street ahead of you, I was so used to the walk as I used to live in Luton near the station I set off without really looking and only noticed the change when I got to where the footbridge entrance used to be and found it wasn't!).<br /><br />Publicity wasn't great, it all got a little rushed at the end with dates being moved forward which meant only one organisation had their publicity ready in time for the launch (and even then only just) but they have had such takeup in leaflets they have had to do a re-print within a month of launch. It has started well but their is room for a improvement (which indicates that there is room for better to come in passenger numbers as well), particularly on the publicity - correct timetable information was up in the shelters by Saturday (19th) at least, better late than never I suppose, though does have the limitations of a local authority relying on base data with no modifications which meant that the circular registered services were shown with destinations as the end point rather than the mid-point of the circle as would be more useful, the B, C & non-busway 10 were all noted showing Luton Town Centre as their destination on the outbound journeys from Luton Town Centre. dwarfer1979noreply@blogger.com