Citylink drop West Highland routes

Citylink continue to cut back on their services through Stirling. They have dropped their summer services from Edinburgh to Oban & Fort William, which served Grangemouth and Stirling en route, from their 2015.
Fisher Tours are running a service to Oban every second Thursday via Alloa & Stirling, giving 3 hours in Oban before returning. Fisher Tours also have services to Callander every other Friday.

New operator for Alloa Town Centre C64 bus

Alloa's C64 Town service will be operated by Hunter's Executive Coaches from Monday April 27th. This will replace WAVE who appear to be giving up all their tendered routes, including the H1/2 Hospital services, which are now run by First, and serveral other services in the Clackmannan (C70) and Stirling  (C48/C66/C67) areas, within the next 6 weeks.

Stirling Park & Ride issues

There have been issues this week with Stirling's Park & Ride services, due to WAVE, the operators of the Springkerse and Castleview services, currently experiencing driver shortages, which have lead to reductions in frequency levels. Up to date information is available from the council website.

First take on hospital runs

First have taken over from WAVE, in running the H1/2 services between Clackmannanshire & Forth Valley Hospital in Larbert on Monday-Saturdays, from this week. The contract funded by NHS Forth Valley is valued at £1,277, 880, will run until March 2018.
First submitted thge only tender for the work, and no award has been made for a Sunday service.

Local fares rise

First are increasing some of their fares in the Forth Valley from next Sunday (29th). The £1.80 and £2.20 single fares will go up by 10p. Returns and childrens fares  will increase accordingly.
Also the popular £2 Grangemouth day ticket will go up by 25% to £2.50.
However all other fares will remain unchanged.
A week later, on April 5th, Stagecoach will  increase their fares across the board by under 2%.

Weekend rail services withdrawn from Alloa

The new Scotrail operator, Abelio, is getting off to a bad start in Alloa. Although the new operator takes over on April 1st, long standing engineering works will mean that there will be no weekend (Saturday or Sunday) services from Alloa for the whole month of April. Rail replacement buses will be in operation. Furthermore, on Sunday, April 12th, further engineering work will mean that there are no trains between Stirling & Croy, but long distance services from Aberdeen & Inverness will still serve Stirling en route to Glasgow, although they will be diverted and journey times extended.
There will be a further two weekends of service withdrawel from Alloa in July.

More First Bus cuts in Stirling

First are cutting more services in the Stirling area next month, From April 20th, Service 58 between Stirling & Dunblane, currently an hourly service, will be cut to just one journey daily towards Dunblane & three from Dunblane.
Service 101, serving the Forth Valley College at Kildean will be withdrawn, although one return journey will operate for start & finishing times at the college by Service 57, between St.Ninians & Raploch.
Service 57, itself, is being cut from a 20 minute service to half hourly, and is rerouted via Whins of Milton, and Glasgow Road , whilst Service 54 will revert to it's old route in Whins Of Milton, and now serve Stirling Community Hospital.
Further cuts are being applied to the X39 Service between Stirling-Glasgow, with evening services being withdrawn,