Ever since the county council discontinued its series of area bus maps, including one for Lancaster and Morecambe, the District has lacked an important piece of information and promotional material for its bus services - a map of the whole bus network showing ALL services, irrespective of who runs them.
Stagecoach has produced maps of its own bus services, but these ignore those provided by other bus companies. A set of new bus guides produced for the new network being introduced next Monday includes maps of the individual services shown in each guide and there is a stand-alone leaflet with a map of services 1 2 4 and 6/6A, these being the ones that have had significant changes to routes and times. There doesn't appear - in the short term at least - to be a new version of the full network map, which in any case wouldn't include the four local routes run by Kirkby Lonsdale Coach Hire.
So the Bus Users' Group has stepped into the breach and produced, with the help of our friends at www.gotimetable.com something that has been lacking for several years - a map of ALL the bus routes in the local area of Lancaster and Morecambe as they will be from 8th October.
The map is on display in our display case at Lancaster bus station and will of course be shown on the Local Maps and Timetables page of this website. We are also working on a map of all the rural and interurban bus routes from Lancaster and Morecambe, but priority has been given to the Local map so that it could be published to co-incide with next week's changes.