| Re: Mousehole, Cornwall: a bus route change (for the worse) Posted by Kernow Otter at 22:30, 11th February 2026 |     |
They did similar in Fowey a couple of years back
| Re: Mousehole, Cornwall: a bus route change (for the worse) Posted by Mark A at 19:28, 11th February 2026 | |
The change to the Penzance to Mousehole number 6 announced on the following page.
https://www.transportforcornwall.co.uk/plan-your-future-journeys-february-network-information-now-available
Service will operate half-hourly throughout the day, hourly during the evenings and on Sundays. To provide additional capacity at busy times buses will no longer serve the Harbour and will terminate at the Coastguard Hotel.
Had to read that twice and am tempted to ask Graham to set his pedantry loose on that sentence.
Mark
Edit note: Sorry, Mark: just amending your quote marks, for clarity. CfN.
| Mousehole, Cornwall: a bus route change (for the worse) Posted by Mark A at 13:33, 10th February 2026 | |
Given my personal 'Don't drive into Cornwall' rule of quite a few years standing, the Mousehole bus has done me more than a few favours. For the likes of festivals, double deckers were (eventually) put on the route and turned before the point at which the road descended to the harbourside. For the rest of the time, the route until a few years ago was serviced using the likes of an Optare bus that, special events aside, sort of met the demand (albeit a bit cosy at times). The Mousehole bus route, being on a frequent schedule, was a good fit with Penzance's rail service.
More recently, something smaller was put on the route (and definitely felt capacity constrained).
Now, a decision to abandon the Mousehole end of the route completely, with (larger) buses turning short of the village. This will (sort of) suit the casual (and fit) visitor, but will no longer meet the needs of more committed travellers , not to mention the residents themselves (and Mousehole still manages to retain some of those...).
There is, not surprisingly, a petition.
This situation belongs to a super-set though: lip-service paid as to the benefits of public transport, but decisions on the ground that make it more awkward to use.
Photo from below from 2014, the Mousehole bus mixing it with one end or other of the Sea Salt and Sail festival.
Mark
https://www.change.org/p/save-the-mousehole-harbour-bus-stop
