This is the tenth of our occasional updates for members.
Our AGM is on Wednesday June 21, at 18:00 in the St Augustine’s Church, George IV Bridge. Our Guest Speaker will be Councillor Scott Arthur, Convener of Transport and Environment at the City of Edinburgh Council.
This Members’ Bulletin is the official notification to all members, as required by EBUG’s constitution.
Continue reading “No.10 – Edinburgh Bus Users’ Group: Members’ Bulletin March 2023”
This is the ninth of our occasional updates for members.
Our AGM took place on Thursday June 30, as publicised in the previous Members’ Bulletin (number 8, May 2022).
The main formalities were election of the Committee; as follows:
Secretary: Chris DayTreasurer: Bob Moseley
Also elected to the Committee: Sally Millar, Jennifer Marlborough, Gail Clapton, Colin Brown, Fiona McLean (3 places vacant).
The AGM heard from Jess Pepper of lovemybus, which spreads a positive message about buses rather than overt campaigning. Jess reflected on the mismatch between buses’ importance to daily life and the (e.g. media) attention they get. The campaign now aims to establish an upwards spiral in attitudes to bus travel.
We’ve updated this post to contain the full article. EBUG’s web weaver apologises for the omission.
This piece was written for Transform Scotland, and is also available on TS’s website. BBC Scotland also wrote about it.
There was a flurry of interest in early October about public transport recovering from losing passengers during the Covid pandemic. The Scotsman reported transport minister Jenny Gilruth needing to find funding to avert bus service cuts www.scotsman.com/news/transport/lifeline-funding-to-stave-off-massive-bus-service-cuts-urgently-sought-by-transport-minister-jenny-gilruth-3873105. Then Transform Scotland highlighted a recovery in rail patronage, though ScotRail lags behind other operators https://twitter.com/TransformScot/status/1579460922933796864. Back in July 2021, Transform Scotland had highlighted the need for ‘A Just Recovery for Public Transport’ (download link here https://transform.scot/corona-recovery-series-revisited/) Continue reading “Commentary on bus sector recovery”
Here’s the text of EBUG’s deputation to the City of Edinburgh Council on 22 September 2022, in response to a motion by Cllr Thornley on ‘Hopper fares’, which was passed. Item 8.2 here is https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=150&MId=6468
A webcast of the meeting is available at https://edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/701504
N.B. the text differs slightly from ‘as delivered’, especially paragraphs 10-11 which were reduced for brevity)
Continue reading “EBUG’s deputation to CEC: 22 September 2022”
A presentation on September 4 on the Edinburgh and South East Scotland Bus Partnership fund bid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdPF9D62kwA
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Continue reading “Edinburgh and South East Scotland Bus Partnership fund bid”
This bulletin was received by EBUG’s web-weaver in early September 2022, i.e. after the AGM it covers.
Dear EBUG member,
This is the eighth of our occasional updates for members.
Our AGM is on Thursday June 30, at 18:00 in the Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace. This Members’ Bulletin is the official notification to all members, as required by EBUG’s constitution. https://edinburghbususers.group/ebug-trial/constitution-and-agm-papers. Continue reading “No.8 – Members’ Bulletin May 2022”
The media has been quite exercised lately by the planned trial of Autonomous Buses across the Forth between Ferrytoll and Edinburgh Park.
In early May, a member of EBUG’s Committee took part in a workshop run by Edinburgh Napier University as part of the ‘CAVForth’ trail.
The day’s agenda included: Introduction to the research, project overview, pre-trial surveys, benefits and how to realise them, risks and mitigation, drivers and barriers (to name a few)…
It did not include any trial runs of the buses. On-ground trials, with passengers, start later in 2022 (Monday – Sunday, up to every 20mins; probable route number AB1).
The introduction revealed the answer to ‘what are ABs for?’ (reframed as ‘what are their expected benefits?’) is:
Continue reading “The rise of the Autonomous Bus: what do they have to offer?”
The link to join EBUG via MailChimp is https://mailchi.mp/34c75658d45a/ebug.
(We’ve corrected an erroneous link in this post about EBUG’s forthcoming AGM. Apologies for any confusion that error caused!)
Jess Pepper of @lovemybus_is guest speaker at our AGM. 6pm, Thursday 30 June in the Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Terrace. Capacity at the Meeting House is 60, so priority goes to:
Meeting papers are online at https://edinburghbususers.group/ebug-trial/constitution-and-agm-papers
