SPREADING THE WORD

Saturday night saw a rather concerned visitor to Brigg in Cary Lane, worrying whether he'd just missed the last bus back to Scunthorpe. It was dark, windy and raining and he said he couldn't locate any timetable information (although there is some on a post, if visibility is good enough to be able to read it). The Tourist Information Centre, which would have helped, had closed for the week. He'd travelled over to enjoy a few drinks in Brigg but was concerned he might not get home, having asked the driver for a printed timetable (on his way over) but been told he didn't have any to hand.
Brigg Blog has previously called for better information to be made available to bus-users - in everyone's interest, not least the bus companies.
So how about someone within those companies, or even at local council level, ensuring Brigg pubs, and perhaps shops, get a stock of printed timetables? Then making the odd check, now and again, to ensure their supplies are topped up when necessary.
Sadly the so-called Traveline Tardis, which supplied online bus information from within one of the Cary Lane shelters, is now long gone, after suffering a string of problems and will probably never return. So more old-fashioned methods need to be employed.
There's a happy ending to Saturday's story; within 15 minutes a bus for Scunthorpe duly pulled in. But it could have been very different. Perhaps it wasn't a good idea for me to recount the tale of a Yorkshireman spotted at Brigg railway station on a Monday night, a couple of years ago. He had delivered a new car to the area and was looking to use public transport to get back to Barnsley. Fortunately, he asked me for details and I ran him over to Barnetby, as a favour, so he could catch the train. Otherwise he'd have been stranded on the platform for four days, Brigg station having no midweek trains at all!