Friday 24 May 2019

More New Buses for Lancaster and Morecambe Services?

A new Enviro 400MMC double-decker on service 1. Are there more on the way for service 100?
When the Bus Users' Group spoke to Mark Whitelocks, Stagecoach Cumbria & N Lancs Managing Director earlier in the year about the new double-deckers that had recently appeared on services 1/1A he told us that he "hoped" to be in a position to announce more good news when he came to speak to us at our meeting in May. In the event Mark was unable to attend but his replacement, Operations Director Tom Waterhouse, was similarly upbeat although he still wasn't able to make a definite announcement.

But the BUG casts its net far and wide when seeking information on the likely prospects for Lancaster's bus passengers and a little research following Mr. Waterhouse's talk turned up this announcement from Steven Knight Media, which describes itself as a "PR, media and publications business, specialising in the public transport sector" and therefore seems as if it ought to know what its talking about!

On May 20th, its website reported: