IB ROUTE 4 GETS UNDER WAY

ONE NEW ROUTE STARTS,ANOTHER ON IT'S WAY

IB Lowlander 58 PJ53 OLA on peak time service 4 on the 26th September

News reaches us this week that IB are to start another new town route in just under 2 months with a new route 17 Ipswich Hospital via Spring Road which mirrors First's 88 to the Hospital, strange this one considering that IB were the ones who withdrew the old number 3 route in the late 1990's, so another warning shot in the battle of the bus wars. Route 4 began on Monday and seemingly are slowly winning passengers over from the 56, one advantage for IB is if a bus is delayed like it was yesterday at peak time then a spare bus as seen above in the picture will be utilised so not to let down passengers, First tend to miss buses out altogether so on routes like the 55/56 you could be waiting up to a hour for the next one.