It was great to have helped Stagecoach with social value in their winning bid for Guernsey’s bus network for the 5-year contract with a 2-year extension option. The new contract starts from April 2025, taking over from CT Plus with Stagecoach operating the contract of 20 core routes and 24 school routes and 1.5 million passenger journeys annually through its Stagecoach South West branch.

Stagecoach are retaining the existing 73 CT Plus staff and keeping the “buses.gg” branding and bus appearance with the new contract starting from 1st April 2025.

From my visit to the island earlier this year, there is already quite a strong community ethos in place along with ambitious net zero goals. Key items of note being this puffin bus stop and while not bus related the blue postbox with knitted cover was also striking.