Bus passengers in Stoke Gifford and Little Stoke will see a number of timetable and route changes coming into effect from Sunday 3rd September. The changes affect First Bus services M4 MetroBus, 19, 73 and Y6. Some journeys on the M4 MetroBus service will be “sped up to avoid excess slack in the timetable”, while the Y6 has a route change between Southmead Hospital and Bristol city centre.
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Complaints about bus driver changeovers causing traffic congestion on Hatchet Road go back as far as 2017/18, the Journal can reveal. Stagecoach says it had to abandon plans to shift the changeover location to Southmead Hospital because of the pandemic.
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The Journal has been contacted by several readers who say they are becoming increasingly frustrated at having to wait in lengthy traffic queues behind Stagecoach buses parked for extended periods at stops on Hatchet Road, Stoke Gifford. Investigations have revealed that driver handovers are to blame.
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The dearth of commercial vehicle drivers that has recently led to shortages at supermarkets and fuel stations is also having an impact on bus services in the Stokes, the Journal can reveal. Recent weeks have seen Stagecoach West cancelling tens of journeys each day on the 10, 11 & 12 services that serve the Stokes.
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New and remodelled bus stops have been brought into use at Bristol Parkway railway station as a £650k scheme of improvements to bus/rail interchange facilities nears completion. The project has seen upgrades to two existing bus stops and the installation of two new MetroBus-specification stops.
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Bus users in the Stoke Gifford and Little Stoke areas will see some significant changes to routes and service numbers from Sunday 6th September 2020, with the 3B and 77 being replaced by new services, the 625 being renumbered and the Y6 having its route altered to serve Hunts Ground Road.
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A bus driver from Little Stoke has been praised for his actions in dealing with a series of medical emergencies affecting one of the regular passengers on his route. First West of England driver James Mills has sprung into action on four separate occasions when regular customer Rachael Jay has suffered seizures or hypoglycaemic attacks whilst travelling on his service.
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A new multi-operator bus ticket valid across the whole of the Bristol area could benefit passengers on routes in Stoke Gifford and Bradley Stoke that are served by buses from both First and Wessex. The BristolRider ticket, offering unlimited travel for one day throughout Bristol and parts of South Gloucestershire (within Wessex’s zones A and B, and First Bristol’s zones
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Braydon Avenue is to regain a frequent bus service from next week, when the Wessex Red no. 13 service is extended to serve Bradley Stoke. Currently running between the Frenchay campus of the University of the West England (UWE) and Bristol city centre, the service will be extended to the Willow Brook Centre from Monday 14th January. Buses will run
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A new express bus service launched today (Wednesday 2nd January) links Kingswood and Emersons Green with major employment centres in the North Fringe of Bristol The X18 service, operated by First Group working in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council, provides five or six journeys in each direction during both the morning and afternoon rush hours, Monday to Friday only. First
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