Bradley Stoke’s 73 bus service will see its route altered for the third time in just over two years when a new timetable comes into effect on Sunday 7th April. At the northern end of the route, buses will no longer turn around at the Aztec West Business Park (off-peak only) or Pear Tree Road Roundabout but will instead make a clockwise one-way loop…
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South Glos Council has published further details of plans to create a near-continuous, two-way segregated cycle track along the full length of Bradley Stoke Way. The route is part of a wider £31.8m scheme to improve walking, cycling and bus travel between Thornbury and south Bradley Stoke. Residents are encouraged to have their say on the proposals by 18th December.
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Drivers using the M5 near Bradley Stoke are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys as bridge refurbishment works enter their next phase from Monday 2nd October 2023. A week of overnight full closures of the M5, between junctions 14 and 17, is planned to allow the installation of a contraflow system.
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Bus passengers in Bradley Stoke will see a number of timetable and route changes coming into effect from Sunday 3rd September 2023. The changes affect First Bus services 73, M1 MetroBus and T1. The route of the 73 service is being extended while operating frequencies on the M1 MetroBus service are being increased. There are also minor changes to the service T1 timetable.
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Students from Bradley Stoke, Stoke Gifford and Patchway who attend Winterbourne Academy have been left stranded after it was announced that the bus service they use to get to and from school has been scrapped. South Gloucestershire Council has told the school that it is “very unlikely” that the 963 bus service will continue as it can no longer afford to subsidise it.
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Timetables published this week confirm that the 73 bus service will be extended to terminate at the Approach Road stop in the Aztec West Business Park from Sunday 3rd September. However, on weekdays fewer than a third of journeys will go as far as Aztec West, with these being at off-peak times only (arriving between 10:23 and 14:57). There are also changes to the stops used by the service near Temple Meads Station.
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Motorists are being warned to expect months of contraflow on the M5 motorway near Bradley Stoke in connection with bridge repair works being carried out by National Highways. The work is planned to commence with a month of overnight road closures from Monday 31st July 2023. Contraflow traffic management will be introduced from October 2023 and last until “summer 2024”.
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Bradley Stoke’s 73 bus service is to be transformed into a cross-city link from September and will additionally serve the Aztec West Business Park at off-peak times. Currently operating between north Bradley Stoke and Bristol Temple Meads Station, the 73 service will be merged with First’s 92 service, which currently runs between the city centre and Hengrove.
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Bus operator First West of England has announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its fares and cutting the discount offered to young people with effect from Sunday 9th July 2023. The increases are being blamed on fuel costs and the “general cost of living”
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Bradley Stoke’s 73 bus service, which has had its route truncated twice over the last 18 months, is to have a small part of its former route reinstated from September 2023, subject to regulatory approval. Operator First West of England is proposing to slightly extend the 73’s route so that it once again serves the full length of Woodlands Lane – but only at off-peak times.
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