A number of bus services that run through the Stokes will see timetable and/or route changes from Sunday 9th October. Route changes are being made on the T1 and Y6 services, while timetable changes apply to the 19, 73, T1 and Y6 services. Meanwhile, across the wider Bristol and South Gloucestershire area, a number of services are being withdrawn.
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Cheaper bus fares have come into force on most local services from today (Sunday 25th September) thanks to the introduction of a subsidy package from the West of England Combined Authority (Weca). The changes have seen the price of a First Bus return (2-trip) ticket from Bradley Stoke to Bristol city centre slashed to £3.50, down from £4.30 previously.
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“What on earth are First doing with the M1 MetroBus service? Yes, I know they have only just taken it over but it was a fully operational and adequately staffed enterprise which they have made an exceptional effort to dismantle in just six days … Time for Weca to step in and allocate it to a competent operator,” writes one Journal reader.
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The M1 MetroBus service, which links Bradley Stoke with Cribbs Causeway, Bristol city centre and south Bristol is to be temporarily suspended this weekend (3rd/4th September) to allow an orderly transition to a new operator. Some late evening journeys on Friday 2nd September may also be impacted. The service will resume from Monday 5th September, running to a slightly revised timetable.
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The first phase of work to install additional traffic calming measures on Stoke Lane will now commence on Monday 22nd August with a road closure lasting for two weeks, South Gloucestershire Council has announced. Further work, involving overnight road closures for resurfacing, will be carried out later in September.
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South Gloucestershire Council has postponed a planned four-week closure of Stoke Lane that was due to start today (Monday 8th August). The road closure, which was announced barely a week ago, on Thursday 28th July, is needed to install additional traffic calming measures that include a new speed table and two new sets of speed cushions.
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Residents of the Stokes are being urged to attend a public meeting in Bradley Stoke this Thursday (4th August) at which possible strategies to address the “toxic mix” of challenges facing local bus services will be discussed. The meeting has been called by West of England mayor Dan Norris ahead of a major review…
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Ticketless ‘Tap On, Tap Off’ (Toto) fare payment is now available on all MetroBus and First Bus services in the West of England. Using Toto, passengers simply tap their credit/debit card or payment-enabled smartphone device against the reader when they get on the bus and again just before they get off.
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A reduction in the operating frequency of the M1 MetroBus service is one of a number of changes being introduced by First West of England from Sunday 24th April 2022. From the same date, the current additional Monday to Friday off-peak ‘short journeys’ between Bristol city centre and Bristol Parkway Station will be withdrawn.
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A boss from First Bus has defended the firm’s rerouting of its 73 service such that it no longer makes a loop through the south-east corner of Bradley Stoke, along Webbs Wood Road and Baileys Court Road. Stops on this section were “exceptionally poorly used”, accounting for less than 1 percent of total patronage on the route, he claimed.
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