First Bus - Leicester

[SSmith09]

My guess is that's just 2 buses required?

Yeah as it looks to be a 75 min round trip.

[Fin W]

Service changes forthcoming. Nothing major.. mostly just minor cuts for school holiday - which always happens.
Although something interesting is the 18/19..
19 is being withdrawn. 18 is extending to Fosse Park (for all journeys). Of course, 19 was very lightly used to Thorpe Astley, so that of course was expected (and also orbital restored the Thorpe Astley bit daily when it changed last month to 40S).
What it does mean is the 18 will run every 20mins Mon-sat (more at peak) and every 40mins Sun (this is a timing improvement especially on Sundays!). The service is also going to run later too! Hopefully this change will prove popular.
Interestingly despite the 21T Centrebus service starting - there appears to be no co-ordination of timing to the 21, and the 4E appears to still be running too. Is this firsts way of "retaliation"? After all the "Leicester buses" was supposed to stop duplication on routes!

15s move into Haymarket as part of these changes too, there is a few stand changes as a result.

[SSmith09]

Details of the changes are now on the First website 

https://www.firstbus.co.uk/leicester/news-and-service-updates/updates/changes-your-local-bus-services