Another round of alterations to Bradley Stoke’s bus services comes into effect this Sunday (31st August), with the withdrawal of one service (Wessex 13), the introduction of another (First X74) and a reduction in the daytime frequency of a third (First 73). The Wessex 13 service, which links the Willow Brook Centre with Bristol city centre via Little Stoke, Stoke
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Timetable changes introduced today (Sunday 13th April) have left Bradley Stoke with two fewer bus services and seen off-peak journeys axed on a third route. Wessex Connect has cancelled the 482 and 483 services, which provided a direct connection from Bradley Stoke to Winterbourne, Frampton Cotterell, Yate and Chipping Sodbury. The move leaves two sets of bus stops (one on
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Wessex Bristol has today launched a new bus service, the 3B, linking Bristol Parkway Station and Aztec West via Bradley Stoke or Little Stoke. The new public service replaces a shuttle bus that Wessex previously operated between Bristol Parkway Station and Aztec West on behalf of a group of private sector organisations based at Aztec West. In the early morning, buses
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Major changes in Bradley Stoke’s bus services come into effect this Sunday (1st September). As previously reported on this website and in the August edition of the BSJ magazine, the existing 73 and 74 routes are being merged into a single 73 route that serves both the north and the south of the town. The frequency of the reconfigured 73
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A new bus service is to be introduced from next Monday (14th January), linking the Willow Brook Centre with Bristol city centre, via the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England (UWE). Wessex Red’s number 13 service is being extended to serve Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke, Stoke Lodge and Filton, with a 20 minute frequency Monday through
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Bus services described as “rubbish” by the Mayor of Bradley Stoke are to be subsidised by local taxpayers for at least three months until a new operator can be found to operate them on a commercial basis. Wessex Connect, which operates the U7, U7A and U8 services, announced last month that it would be stopping the services from 20th May
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Bradley Stoke councillors are stepping up their campaign against the town’s ‘bus drought’. The campaign is in response to next month’s (20th May) planned bus service cuts by Wessex Connect, which will leave the whole of the south of Bradley Stoke without a daytime bus service for six days of the week. South Gloucestershire Council’s Integrated Transport Unit (ITU) has
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Bus service changes being proposed by Wessex Connect look set to leave the whole of Bradley Stoke South without a daytime bus service for six days of the week. In a press release put out today, the bus company has announced its intention to withdraw services U7, U7A. U8 and the Monday-Saturday service of the 482/483, with effect from Sunday
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Town Councillors have urged residents concerned by proposed changes to bus services in Bradley Stoke to attend tonight’s Southern Brooks Area Forum meeting in Filton. Residents attending last week’s Town Council Planning Committee meeting were advised that the changes were a commercial decision by the operator, Wessex Connect, and not South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Protests by bus users and Journal
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Bus route and timetable changes scheduled for mid-September look set to leave a large part of South Bradley Stoke without a direct daytime service to Bristol city centre. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has confirmed rumours that the 71 and 72 bus services operated by Wessex Connect are to be withdrawn from 18th September. The hourly 71 service, which links North
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