New Links to ASDA and Morecambe Prom.

by Jim
Lonsdale Buses service 83 is being re-routed to serve Salt Ayre / ASDA and Bare (c) Darren Hunt

Lonsdale Buses service 83, linking Brookhouse and Morecambe, will have a new route and timetable from Tuesday, 5th May.

The route is being changed to take in the ASDA superstore at Salt Ayre, Bare Lane station and Morecambe Promenade. From Torrisholme Road, buses will run down Scale Hall Lane to Morecambe Road and then via Ovangle Road to ASDA. Returning to Morecambe Road, the service will continue to The Shrimp roundabout and Bare Lane, Bare Crescent and along the Promenade to Central Drive, calling at Festival Market before terminating at Morecambe Bus Station. Buses will return to Brookhouse via the reverse of the inward route.

New Links

The new route provides new links to ASDA and Salt Ayre Leisure Centre from Brookhouse, Caton, Halton, Beaumont, Skerton and Bare as well as a direct service to Morecambe Promenade. It also meets requests from passengers for the service to stop outside the Festival Market and Morrison’s in Morecambe.

Because of the extra distance to be covered and the additional time this will take, the service will operate every 90 minutes with the first bus from Brookhouse at 07.30 and the last return from Morecambe at 18.45 every day except Sunday and public holidays.

The new timetable is on this link 83 – Morecambe – Brookhouse – Kirkby Lonsdale Coaches – Bus Times which leads to a timetable showing the main stops. Ticking the “All Stops” box on the left hand side brings up a timetable showing the estimated times at every stop on the route.

Use it or lose it

Service 83 already fills a number of gaps in the local bus network identified to Lonsdale Buses by the Bus Users’ Group and the revised route follows up on our suggestions for further improvements. The service is operated on a fullt commercial basis and receives no outside financial support, so its continuation depends on how well it is used. The £3 maximum fare cap applies and Concessionary Passes (NoW Cards) are valid subject to the usual rules.

“Bus Times” added to website

by Jim

Our website now contains a link to Bus Times.org, a website containing

  • Real Time Locations of all buses in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man
  • Timetables for bus services throughout the British Isles
  • Locations, names, photographs, and departure lists of all bus stops
  • Website links to all bus operators.

Bus Times is an independent and unofficial site, but it surpasses in the breadth and quality of its information anything yet produced by bus operators, local authorities or government departments. It is free to use.

It is the only website that shows buses of every bus operator, in real time, on a single map and contains links to timetables for every bus route in the UK, plus Ireland and the Isle of Man. On a working day it usually tracks over 25,000 buses of almost 1,000 bus operators calling at around 420,000 bus stops!

Its bus tracking service is thought by many to be more reliable that those provided in bus companies’ own apps and websites.

This map – a screenshot from a Sunday morning centered on Lancaster – shows what to expect, with buses from Stagecoach, Lonsdale Buses, Blackpool Transport, Archway, Preston Bus, Blackburn Bus Co and others all shown together on one map. Clicking on a bus icon tells you which service it is operating, where it is, and whether it is on time. There are links to the full timetable for the service and, for those who are interested, details of the bus itself complete with photographs. Zooming in on the map will show the exact location of bus stops, again with photos, and departure lists of buses from the stop with scheduled and real times.

You can access Bus Times from the menu on this website’s header or from this link: Bus Times.org