Service Reductions

Enviro 425 is one of six buses parked up by the cenotaph on Saturday 28th (Philip Higgs)

Blackpool Transport reduced services further as part of their response to the Covid19 pandemic. 37 buses are now required, with most services either every 30 or 60 minutes daily, some with no evening service. It had clearly been struggling for staff availability with services cancelled during the previous weeks.

• 1 Starr Gate to Fleetwood Affinity Outlet every 30 mins (5 buses) finishes 2200
• 2 Blackpool to Poulton 60 mins 1 bus - finishes 1800
• 2C Blackpool to Knott End 90 mins 2 buses - finishes 1800
• 3 Mereside to Cleveleys Park 60 mins 5 buses with 4 - finishes around 2100
• 4 Mereside to Cleveleys 60 mins - finishes around 2100
• 5 Hospital to Halfway House 30 mins 3 buses finishes 2300
• 6 Grange Park to Mereside 30 mins 4 buses finishes 2300
• 7 Cleveleys to Clifton Hospital 60 mins 3 buses finishes 2200
• 9 Cleveleys to Blackpool 30 mins 3 buses finishes 1800 with one trip at 2220 from Blackpool, 2305 from Cleveleys
• 11 Lytham to Blackpool 30 mins 4 buses finishes 1900
• 14 Fleetwood to Blackpool 30 mins 4 buses finishes 2200
• 17 Lytham to Blackpool 60 mins 2 buses finishes 2100
• 18 Mereside to Blackpool 60 mins 2 buses 1000-1600 only
• 19 Staining to Blackpool 60 mins 1 bus 955 to 1755

Catch 22 has reduced its services from 30th March with the 21 operating hourly Tues, Wed, Thurs and Sat, while the 24 is operating hourly with 2 buses to it Saturday timetable. The Sunday service is suspended. 3 buses are required with 2 Versa and 2 Darts in the operating pool. A new addition collected today is ex Stagecoach North West SP09DRO - an Alexander Dennis Enivro 300 bodied MAN.

Stagecoach is running its 61 hourly daily, 68 half hourly Mon-Sat, hourly Sundays. The 42 from Lancaster is running every 2 hours daily. Preston Bus 75 is continuing to run hourly but to Saturday times, as its Coastal 76 and 77, while their commercial 78 is unchanged.