Andy C

It is a tendered service run under contract to SYMCA - operators don't try it and drop it, the operate it for the length of time they have a contract to operate it. OK, it isn't the busiest bus in the world, but it is reasonably well used by pensioners who cannot walk to the main road for the more regular bus services and there is also demand for travel to the medical centre at Jordanthorpe, retail park at Norton, libraries at Greenhill and Totley, secondary schools at Meadowhead and Totley Brook plus various other facilities along the route. What is killing it is partly the poor timetable (SYMCA axed the runs at school times for example!) but more the fact under TM Travel most trips fail to operate.

Indeed, some incredibly poor performance from TM Travel. To use yesterday as an example, they only managed to operate one round trip all day and that was a full length bus rather than the booked minibus so could have had some fun trying to get around some of the smaller roads! https://bustimes.org/services/m17-dore-bradway-jordanthorpe/vehicles?date=2024-02-12

First bus consultation: https://www.firstbus.co.uk/south-yorkshire/news-and-service-updates/have-your-say South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) consultation: https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/en-GB/LandingPage/april2024

To summarise.... bus 10/10a minor timetable changes to improve punctuality buses 31, 32, 52a and M92 The 31 will run as now from Sheffield to Hillsborough but then on to Parsons Cross via Fox Hill The 32 will run directly along Halifax Road with changes to the 31 and M92 replacing the bits of route 32 that have been removed. The M92 will run via Fox Hill Crescent and also have a Saturday service introduced The 52a will be extended to Loxley via Wisewood on some trips during Monday to Saturday daytime to replace bus 31. bus 24 timetable changes to improve punctuality and coordination with bus 25 bus X1, X5, X10 and X78 The X1 will change route between Sheffield, Meadowhall and Rotherham to go via Brightside and Meadowbank (current X78 route) The X10 will be renumbered X2 and change route between Sheffield and Rotherham as per the X1. Some trips will extend beyond Maltby to Doncaster. The X5 will see some trips extend beyond Dinnington to Maltby the X78 will change route between Sheffield, Meadowhall and Rotherham to go via Attercliffe and Magna (current X1/X10 route). bus 97 minor change to the timetable early morning bus 72/72a all trips will run as route 72 (so no more 72a) via an amended route, the route will also extend beyond Wath to Swinton. bus 73 improved evening and Sunday service above and beyond what SYMCA fund.

The X78 (to become X3) will still run to Doncaster, it'll just use a different route from Sheffield to Rotherham (the route the X1 and X10 currently use) The X1 and X10 will run via the current X78 route from Sheffield to Rotherham then as now on to Maltby, however one bus per hour will continue beyond Maltby to Doncaster via an amended version of the existing route 10. So Sheffield and Meadowhall gets more buses through to Doncaster, not less.

The consultation for the SYMCA tendered services is now online >> https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/en-GB/LandingPage/april2024

Other changes haven't been publicly announced, however some have appeared on the South Yorkshire Transport Enthusiasts forum which involve routes 10/10a, 31, 32, 58 and M92.

First bus are consulting on upcoming route/timetable changes for April. There are also likely to be changes to some routes that other operators run under contract to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. https://www.firstbus.co.uk/south-yorkshire/news-and-service-updates/have-your-say First buses affected in Sheffield are: X1/X10/10 (to become X1/X2) Sheffield - Meadowhall - Rotherham - Maltby - Doncaster 24 Woodhouse - Manor Park - City Centre - Woodseats - Lowedges 52a Woodhouse - Handsworth - Darnall - Attercliffe - City Centre - Broomhill - Crookes - Hillsborough - (Wisewood/Loxley) 73 Rotherham - Treeton - Handsworth - Manor Top - Sheffield 97/98 Hillsborough - Southey Green - City Centre - Abbeydale Road - Totley / Totley Brook X5 Sheffield - Handsworth - Aston - Kiveton - Dinnington - (Maltby) X78 (to become X3) Sheffield - Meadowhall - Rotherham - Conisborough - Doncaster

One Valley Festival with its predecessor 3 Valley Beer Festival has seen a pub, club and brewery based festival taking place in the Dronfield area every year (Covid excepted) since 2010. It sees a number of venues putting on events on the same day with beer, cider, food and music allowing you to do a bit of a crawl between them. They have now announced this year's date for the diary - Saturday 8 June. The One Valley town centre event usually includes the Blue Stoops, Manor House Hotel bar, Green Dragon, Beer Stop, Dronfield Arms, Underdog bar, White Swan and Pioneer Club. All these are walkable from Dronfield railway station and also reachable by bus from Sheffield and Chesterfield. Further out venues usually include the Jolly Farmer at Dronfield Woodhouse (on bus route 43), Drone Valley Brewery at Unstone (on bus routes 43 and 44) and the Miners Arms in Hundall (on bus route 15). Check out their Facebook page for the latest news on this event - facebook.com/OneValleyFestival

The Heart of the City Two is served by the City Hall tram stop, however the Moor where all the shops and market have been moved to, away from Fitzalan Square / Castle Square / Cathedral tram stops is less convenient. If a new tram spur was to be built perhaps off West Street down Fitzwillam Street (past West One and the Washington pub) to a new terminus platform in the Moorfoot area. Ideally this would be on segregated track rather than on street. Tram Train and Purple route could be extended beyond Cathedral to it. Should we also mention the council funded city centre minibus service no one uses? It connects with the tram at the City Hall stop and runs via Moorfoot to the bus station every 10 minutes during shopping hours and you get a free ride if you show your tram ticket, otherwise it's a £1 flat fare.

There are two routes instead of Leopold Street and Pinstone Street.. the Abbeydale Road buses that used to go via High Street and Pinstone Street and the Ecclesall Road buses that used to come up Townhead Street then Leopold Street now use Arundel Gate and stop at a temporary stop there whilst the buses that come down Glossop Road and West Street now go round Carver Street and Division Street and stop at a temporary stop on Rockingham Street, with the next stop from there being either Moorfoot or Arundel Gate. On Friday and Saturday evenings the buses are barred from Carver Street and Division Street so run around the inner ring road to Eyre Street and completely bypass that part of the City Centre. The council are supposed to be redesigning Rockingham Street as part of the same project as the pocket park to make it a bus road in both directions from West Street to Charter Row, with a proper "mini bus interchange" facility next to the new pocket park. However nothing has actually happened with this and the buses currently serve a temporary stop which is basically a sign in a bucket kicked to the side of the pavement next to a building site with no facilities such as shelters, seating, departure information screens or lighting with many passengers not feeling particularly safe waiting there.

The area has changed over the years and become much more diverse and the fact you can eat your way around the world on London Road is a big selling point I think! As for pubs and bars, well, it depends what you are looking for really. If you want to do a run down London Road and Abbeydale Road there are plenty to go at, although many are now more of the sit down and have conversation over a nice drink rather than standing up with a pint of lager or session bitter engaging in raucous banter. The run includes: Beer Engine Clubhouse Albion Barrys (Barrel being converted into a cocktail bar / fast food joint) (Crown looking for a new tenant, again) Cremorne Jabbarwocky Bear Dead Donkey Turners Glass Frog Abbeydale Tap & Snap Over the Yardarm Picture House Social Barrow Boy Two Thirds Beer Co Teller Gin Bar Broadfield It's also walkable across to the Heeley area for the likes of the Hardy Pick, Tramshed, Crown, Red Lion, White Lion, Brothers Arms, Sheaf View and Hagglers Corner. Plus not far off London Road as someone mentioned the Golden Lion is still going. Then of course there is also Ecclesall Road.... What does seem a shame is the two pubs on Bramall Lane (Railway and Cricketers) that only open on matchdays, at least they still exist though...

Going back to the theme of Heart of the City, I would suggest developing and improving the City Centre so that there is more demand from people wanting to go there will lead to more people on the buses, trams and trains, more cars in the car parks and more taxis booked. The public transport operators, taxi drivers and car park operators will respond accordingly when they see numbers moving in the right direction. Right now public transport operators are still recovering from Covid which has left them short of drivers and with less regular commuters buying season tickets too. The national economy is wrecked with high inflation, excessive energy bills and a cost of living crisis. The City Centre is one big building site. Hopefully all these things will improve in time, but on a more positive front, the City Centre is still busy when there is something special going on to attract people, for example the place was buzzing during the Christmas markets.

We need people like you with vision and ideas and both the enthusiasm and calmness to keep pushing them in the right way and of course part of that needs to be listening to those in the industry who can explain how it would need to happen and why. So keep it up I say. I don't own a car and rely on a combination of public transport, taxis and lifts to get around. I'd also love to see a great public transport system and as someone whose hobbies and social life pretty much revolves around pubs and beer is very unhappy at the lack of evening buses! However I can see and understand the reasons and challenges and also the changes in demand. The biggest frustration for me is politicians, be they MPs, councillors or the elected mayor - as well as journalists - who just keep pushing the line that if it wasn't for those nasty private businesses we'd have a perfect public transport system, ignoring all the public sector failings that lead to many of the problems that impact bus operation - be that the state of the roads, the economy or whatever. The truth is yes, we could have much better bus, tram and train services, however it would need a lot of public money injecting into the system to fund loss making services and also invest in the infrastructure, it would also require political balls of steel to go ahead with the bus priority measures needed for a reliable service, just look at how it went with the consultation over the bus lanes on Ecclesall Road and Abbeydale Road! It would also require a whole new public sector mentality where different departments actually worked together towards the bigger picture rather than just ticking their own boxes - the Heart of the City project is doing a very good job at regenerating the City Centre but public transport really has been frozen out of it, the planners consider that someone else's problem whilst highlighting the car park facilities serving their shiny new buildings. Where we are at now is we have businesses that run buses that have a lot of experience and knowledge within them, the bigger players also bring associated resource with them that a lot of people don't think about such as back office systems for ticketing and information. These businesses are quite happy to work with the local authorities be that the current hybrid commercial/tendered operation or the franchising model currently being investigated, but either way the local authorities need to play their part as they provide the operating environment (roads, bus stops etc) and funding for socially/economically necessary services that would otherwise not be financially viable. I think the way things are now post covid franchising may well be a good thing - the bus operating businesses can just focus on the logistical side of running buses with the financial risk moved away from their business whilst it would also be a good opportunity for a great reset of the network, changing routes and timetables to reflect changes in demand post covid. Ticket simplification would be great too, although we still have a challenge with cross border services into West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Also an interesting aside is the process is now underway to set up an East Midlands Mayoral Combined Authority which would include Derbyshire (ie Dronfield, Eckington, Killamarsh, Hope Valley etc) and Nottinghamshire (ie Mansfield, Worksop etc) and if their public transport policy goes down the road of bus franchising it will be interesting to see how the two authorities work together on cross border bus services!

Comparing with London does need some health warnings. Transport for London finances are what you might call challenging and the mayor is regularly having to negotiate with the government for more money. The London Overground network has transformed run down orbital rail routes and it is amazing on a weekend to see them running trains into Stratford every 15 minutes up to midnight that are full and standing! Investment in expanding the Docklands Light Railway and constructing the Elizabeth Line, part funded by developers regenerating some of the areas served are also good news stories and a big success. On the other hand London buses are seeing declining patronage and cuts to services as a result of slow journey times and poor reliability because of getting stuck in traffic congestion - when Boris Johnson was mayor he removed some of the bus priority measures. As for Greater Manchester and their Bee Network, it is early days, there have been modest increases in usage but they have already discovered that franchising and painting buses yellow doesn't solve reliability issues caused by traffic congestion and are now having to fund extra buses for some routes to maintain the same level of service as the journey times need to be longer realistically. I'd say in Sheffield there are similar issues with traffic and provision/enforcement of bus priority measures where it doesn't really matter who is in charge of the buses themselves - its the politicians at the council that are responsible for any solutions regardless. I believe Mayor Coppard has in line with his manifesto when elected started the process investigating bus franchising for South Yorkshire and is going through the proper required audit workstreams to see how it would work, how much it would cost the taxpayer and whether it is viable. All I'll say is if we want to see more and better bus services, I think the taxpayer will have to chip in much more than now. As for Supertram, it is indeed loss making, however until the rail replacement programme began I believe Stagecoach was managing to break even and attracting healthy passenger numbers. Their contract ends in March, they haven't walked away from it. SYMCA led by Mayor Coppard has decided to effectively bring it in house from March with it to be run by a company owned at arms length by SYMCA, in my view this is quite sensible given that in the coming years there will be a fair bit of disruption to manage as investment is made in renewing life expired infrastructure (its about 30 years old now) which is what the bid to government for funding was about. All the ideas for network extensions that have been publicly stated have been for the Tram-Train operation, extending beyond Parkgate as well as the potential of the introduction of passenger services to the Stocksbridge line to be a Tram-Train. There has been less firm talk of extensions to the classic tramway although we keep hearing aspirations to serve the Northern General Hospital or to continue beyond Herdings Park through Norton and beyond, however what I'd say is to achieve the speed and reliability people want then street running has to be avoided where possible - no point in trams getting stuck in the same traffic jams that make the existing bus service unattractive.

Ah, there's a whole different conversation when it comes to evening services which can be split into longer term issues and post covid issues. Before licencing reform, which was introduced when Tony Blair was Prime Minister, generally speaking all pubs closed at 11pm and all nightclubs closed at 2am. Last buses on the main routes were generally at 11:15pm catering for those leaving the pubs, then at the weekend there was a night bus to many areas - one at midnight (useful for those working in the pubs that shut at 11 as well as those that went for food after the pubs shut before getting a bus) then the same vehicle would return to town to provide a 2:30am departure after the clubs kicked out. It was very difficult to get a taxi around these times, not just because of high demand but also a limit on the number of taxi licences the council issued. Now pubs, bars and clubs are free to apply for a licence for whatever hours suits their business, subject to council licencing policy for particular areas. Many traditional pubs now open until midnight rather than 11pm at the weekend and there are bars open as late as 3 or 4 in the morning and some clubs until 6am. This has spread demand for travel much wider through the evening and night and at the same time there are not only more taxis available but modern app based private hire cabs like Uber have made taxis more affordable, more convenient and possibly even safer. Whilst changes to opening hours and taxis is mostly positive, it made night buses no longer viable. Fast forward post covid the hospitality industry is suffering - people have not only changed their habits and go out less after Covid anyway but with the cost of living crisis and the skyrocketing energy prices hitting both consumers and businesses - and bus operators are no exception. First bus in Sheffield was a loss making operation before Covid then post covid with lower passenger numbers, significantly increasing operating costs and an industry wide shortage of drivers their management made a decision to do some pruning of the network and concentrate on their core business and network in order to turn the operation around to not only actually make a modest profit but also be more reliable. Some of the cuts made of random route extensions did hurt - the removal of the 52a beyond Hillsborough to Wisewood and Loxley left those areas only covered by tendered services 61 and 62 whilst the removal of the 24 beyond Lowedges to Bradway left Bradway with no buses at the time the Stagecoach 25 doesn't operate, although Stagecoach did add extra early morning journeys to replace the 24 at those times, Bradway still has no service after 8pm. Meanwhile, the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority has been suffering on the budget front when it comes to buses. In the last year or two the country's economy has been bad with very high inflation and soaring energy costs meaning the cost of providing bus services has become much higher. Also not helping locally of course is the Sheffield City Centre Clean Air Zone charges meaning bus operators can no longer bid for contracts with a low public subsidy on the basis of using older buses. At the same time SYMCA have not had an increase in funding from the government or council so therefore cannot afford to support as many bus services as before. So priorities have had to be made and with evening services low down the list of priorities, existing supported evening services have been reduced to use minimal resources whilst there is no money for supporting anything extra - hence the example of the 25 Woodhouse-Bradway which has a public subsidy to operate under contract at the Woodhouse end but not at the Bradway end (the 24 that previously provided an evening service to Bradway is operated on a commercial basis). There is also a side issue with both driver shortages and increased costs meaning operators are being more selective about what contracts they bid for - that was the reason why after Powells bus went bust no operator was interested in the contract for the 10/10a inner circle or the Sunday service on the 61/62 to Bradfield, also why after the Hulleys contract on the M17 from Dore ended no one else took it on! Some might argue that if the mayor hadn't spent so much money subsidising 80p fares for young adults or £2 fares on the trams (which have now ended) there may have been more money left for supporting tendered bus services of course... One of the projects funded by Derbyshire County Council as part of their government funded Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) has been to kick start evening service provision on some key services. This has seen an evening service introduced on the 218 Sheffield-Bakewell via Totley, X17 Sheffield-Chesterfield via Meadowhead and 257 Sheffield-Bakewell via Crosspool (since suspended due to driver shortage) plus improvements to the 44 Sheffield-Chesterfield via Dronfield. Frustratingly due to local politics these don't seem to have been promoted this side of the country boundary. There are also some frustrations I observe on the Abbeydale Road corridor where if bus timetables were better co-ordinated the evening frequency would be doubled and therefore made more attractive - the 75/76 and 97/98 leave the City Centre at the same time! It isn't all bad news - Some routes like the Stagecoach 52 and 120 still has a good evening service and there have been some improvements in the time of the last bus by First such as the introduction of a midnight bus to Totley on weekdays. Ultimately I think a lot of work needs to be done on evening timetables, for our local authorities to be more supportive not just funding buses but promoting them and encouraging use and of course for local people to actually buy tickets and use them - ultimately if revenue is good enough to justify it then the service can be improved, there is evidence of that where Stagecoach have increased the frequency of the 120 between Fulwood and Sheffield City Centre in an evening at the weekend during the University term to cater for demand from students in accommodation around Broomhill and Ranmoor.

From what I remember from the time it was both - the social distancing space was needed for the shops on Leopold Street to be allowed to reopen after the first lockdown but the funding was obtained on the basis of active travel - encouraging more people to walk or cycle. To be fair, the plans for the area when it is all remodelled look like it will be a nicer place to be, so I don't personally have a huge issue with the road being downgraded to be made smaller, catering only for cycles and access, is more how it has been implemented in isolation with no proper replacement bus route and stops provided - at the time Pinstone Street was closed they should have had both Rockingham Street and Arundel Gate remodelled ready for the buses to move into and the stop infrastructure such as shelters, seating, lighting etc moved across for the first day of the altered bus route. Nearly three years later this still hasn't happened, despite various plans being put out to public consultation over the last year or two.

A reminder of the links for the New Years Eve and New Years Day services.... New Years Eve - Sunday service but with an early finish: Stagecoach Yorkshire: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/yorkshire/festive-services-in-south-yorkshire-and-chesterfield/christmas-and-new-year-services-in-sheffield Stagecoach Supertram: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/news/yorkshire/2023/december/christmas-and-new-year-tram-service-information First bus: https://www.firstbus.co.uk/sheffield/news-and-service-updates/updates/christmas-and-new-year-bus-services-20232024 TM Travel: http://www.tmtravel.co.uk/news-service-updates/ National Rail: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ New Years Day - a skeleton bus network will operate in the daytime, operated by First bus under contract to SYMCA with support from Sheffield City Council. Supertram will also operate in the daytime from Cathedral to Halfway, Parkgate, Meadowhall and Middlewood. Train services will operate the normal weekday service with some modifications. Bus & tram timetables: https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/en-GB/LandingPage/Christmas National Rail: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Looking at the article it seems to be based on shops selling expensive things in the City Centre will fail because there isn't good enough public transport from the wealthier areas of the city and that is a political strategy. A few points from me on that.. If wealthier people want to go into the city by car there has been investment in the inner ring road and there is plenty of parking capacity in multi-storey car parks. If they can afford to be shopping for premium goods they can afford parking fees. There is also the alternative of the Supertram park & ride facilities. Pretty much any bus route that is financially viable is operated as a commercial business at the operators own financial risk with little political input other than funding concessionary fare schemes. Other bus services that aren't commercially viable but considered economically or socially essential by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority are publicly specified and funded and you could say the limited funds available are subject to prioritisation. Most of the buses funded are ensuring all communities have some kind of public transport to access shops, doctors surgeries etc and unfortunately things like evening services are low down the list for funding. The article quotes Bradway - service 25, provided on a commercial basis by Stagecoach, is actually quite good during shopping hours with buses scheduled to run every 15 minutes (every 30 minutes on Sundays). The big shortfall, as mentioned in the article, is the lack of an evening service, with last buses around 8pm, however that impacts nightlife more than shops. In the wealthier areas of Dore and Whirlow, the 81/82 bus provides a half hourly daytime service from Dore village, supplemented on the main road through Whirlow by Peak District buses 65 and 272. Evening service is somewhat more limited. The article correctly mentions there are no Supertram services in the South West of the city, although there is Dore & Totley railway station serving this part of the city with trains non stop into the City Centre, however the availability of buses to connect in to the trains is very limited. New tram lines would be good, although I understand at the moment the priority is to renew the existing system which is now about 30 years old with some elements of the infrastructure and fleet life expired. An extension beyond Herdings Park to Norton and Lowedges/Greenhill or Jordanthorpe may be an option perhaps, however I'd say any new line needs to be mostly off road on reserved tracks in order to be fast and reliable, not simply run down a road where trams will get stuck in the same traffic congestion that the existing bus services suffer from. There are issues in Sheffield City Centre that put people off using buses that are not within the control of bus operators, these being that adequate replacement facilities have not been provided following the closure of Leopold Street and Pinstone Street and the number of unsavoury characters hanging around near bus stops on Arundel Gate, High Street and West Street making it feel unsafe for waiting passengers. Now I appreciate people on the street with drug or alcohol issues is a complex issue to address so lets focus on the other point regarding infrastructure for bus passengers - its now been 3 and a half years since the road closure and the bus stops there are still abandoned complete with shelters, seating, lighting, timetable display cases and electronic departure boards, all of which are missing at the temporary stops provided in unpleasant locations on Rockingham Street and Arundel Gate, with the former not even served by buses on Friday or Saturday nights for safety reasons! This really should have been sorted at the time of the closure of Pinstone Street. It would also help if the council, Sheffield BID and the rest involved were more positive about public transport and actually promoted it - all the publicity for attracting people to the City Centre seems to focus on car parking!

I'm not entirely sure the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority really bid for funding in the spirit of the Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) scheme. It was for improvements to infrastructure and services that would grow patronage in a sustainable way, not to achieve political ambitions of subsidising fares or to prop up existing services where the budget is running out. Sadly Hulleys is currently a disaster zone with huge lists of cancellations, in some case leaving rural communities cut off for days, this is a result of driver shortages and fleet issues. The whole industry is actually still suffering with staff shortages and dramatically increasing operating costs following a combination of Brexit, Covid and a government that has handled the economy badly. There seems to be rose tinted spectacles involved when comments are made about London. They do have good public transport down there but bus usage has been in decline since Boris Johnson was Mayor - he cut bus priority measures with the result that journey times and reliability has got much worse. TfL are also not exactly in a good place financially. Over in Manchester hard lessons are already being learned with the franchised Bee Network with poor reliability due to traffic congestion and driver shortages resulting in more tax payers money being chucked in to increase resource - painting the buses yellow and having politicians specify the network doesn't solve such issues!

Simple fact is we cannot have punctual and reliable bus services if the roads the buses run on are too congested, this failure of publicly controlled infrastructure is nothing the bus operators can do anything about, the council need to address this.

The Stagecoach 50/50a/53 will be a more comprehensive service from Eckington to Sheffield, the 252 is really a rural bus for Ridgeway and a shoppers link to Crystal Peaks. Timetables https://www.derbysbus.info/

fair enough. Good to have it all at our fingertips in various forms!

Not quite sure what you can do about the parking situation at St James. It has been built where it has been built, some might argue the location was unsuitable... Only way to make more parking really would be to either demolish things or make it multi storey. Any such extra investment and costs would be reflected in the rent the shops pay the developers and do the shops take enough money to justify that? Also, if the issue is unique to St James compared with other retail parks, is this because a higher than average number visit by car - there are plenty of buses in the area? Or is it simply the layout of the car park causing issues?

unfortunately like most of the industry TM are suffering a serious shortage of drivers but it is more noticable when it is a smaller company with less resources, especially if like the 252 it is a rural/secondary service that runs less frequently. Over Christmas the 252 should be running every day it normally runs (ie Monday to Saturday) except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day - on those days any buses that run in Sheffield are run under contract to - and subsidised by - the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority with some support from Sheffield City Council. The areas on route 252 that are in South Yorkshire all have other buses available and Derbyshire County Council aren't funding any buses on these days hence no buses in Dronfield/Chesterfield/Eckington/Killamarsh. There are various independent websites and apps, all typically use the same source data which is BODS (Bus Industry Open Data Service) which all the bus operators support. I personally use bustimes.org to track buses on a map as well as look up timetables etc.