CallConnect & InterConnect
Transport Connect FN23 EGX and Stagecoach 21224 AE09 GYU are parked opposite each other on St Mary's Street, Lincoln, on 5.1.24
"Connect" is the general term used for Lincolnshire County Council bus services, similar to how Nottingham City Council used to use "link" for everything (before they withdrew like 90% of it). So there's CallConnect... which as the van shows doesn't always capitalise the second C, and InterConnect, and maybe other 'Connect' services used to exist?
I'm not sure to what extent integration of the Connect services exists - whether you can buy a through ticket valid on Inter/CallConnect services or not, though having said that the actual usage of the Connect branding at all is haphazard. The PC Coaches 50 is (I think) a County Council contracted route, but doesn't carry any Connect branding, and half the time Stagecoach can't even put an InterConnect branded bus on their IC services. Brylaine wiped all mention of InterConnect from their routes by removing the 'IC' route numbers, and the latest versions of InterConnect and CallConnect livery both omit the actual InterConnect logo.
In fact there is no actual definition as to what makes some services InterConnect and some not. The Lincoln to Grantham 1 is, or at least used to be, but the 31/31X aren't. The B5 should be but you'd never know it - as is the 103. The 56 and 53 are, and sometimes even get a branded vehicle, while the 50 apparently never was despite its similarity? I swear the only bus route that can fully claim to be InterConnect is the 100, because it's the only one that is consistent.
CallConnect & InterConnect
Transport Connect FN23 EGX and Stagecoach 21224 AE09 GYU are parked opposite each other on St Mary's Street, Lincoln, on 5.1.24
"Connect" is the general term used for Lincolnshire County Council bus services, similar to how Nottingham City Council used to use "link" for everything (before they withdrew like 90% of it). So there's CallConnect... which as the van shows doesn't always capitalise the second C, and InterConnect, and maybe other 'Connect' services used to exist?
I'm not sure to what extent integration of the Connect services exists - whether you can buy a through ticket valid on Inter/CallConnect services or not, though having said that the actual usage of the Connect branding at all is haphazard. The PC Coaches 50 is (I think) a County Council contracted route, but doesn't carry any Connect branding, and half the time Stagecoach can't even put an InterConnect branded bus on their IC services. Brylaine wiped all mention of InterConnect from their routes by removing the 'IC' route numbers, and the latest versions of InterConnect and CallConnect livery both omit the actual InterConnect logo.
In fact there is no actual definition as to what makes some services InterConnect and some not. The Lincoln to Grantham 1 is, or at least used to be, but the 31/31X aren't. The B5 should be but you'd never know it - as is the 103. The 56 and 53 are, and sometimes even get a branded vehicle, while the 50 apparently never was despite its similarity? I swear the only bus route that can fully claim to be InterConnect is the 100, because it's the only one that is consistent.