Sunday is timetable change.  We’ve been busy for weeks now.  While nothing may look too busy on the surface, much has to happen behind the scenes when we change our timetable.  In the last eight weeks we have to produce and print the timetable booklet, get it to the Beacon to deliver across Island homes, and our customers need it two to three weeks prior to it starting.  That used to be a real struggle, but we’re much better at organising it nowadays.  The school bus guide for schoolday routes doesn’t change until schools are back in January, but with schools finishing today we were keen to get it to schools earlier this week.  Our leaflet explaining the changes has also been out for about three weeks.  All good stuff!

With around 1200 timetables at all our bus stops, we’ve been busy creating the new versions, printing them off and laminating them.  Tomorrow 18 staff will be busy (and no doubt cold) changing all of them across the Island.

We’ve spent the last week changing a host of bus stop plates too, those where there are changes to route numbers and end destinations.  They we all made by our suppliers (recycling surplus stops from previous changes!) a week or so ago.  There are still some to change but the important ones, where the information would be really confusing, have been changed.  There are a few locations where buses will no longer call and today and tomorrow the bus stops have been removed in these places.

Ryde Bus station needs some signage changed and this needs to be done overnight betweeen Saturday and Sunday.  It’s all ready and prepared but will mean overnight work for our contractors.

Next week we’ll be following up the change by starting to update any further bus stops signs, but also by replacing our standard bus stop signs with different ones to denote stops only used by buses on school days.  The first few are up already.

Aside from all that which is visible, our traffic team have been flat out producing the new rotas and the daily work duties for our drivers.

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