July Five

"there are areas of Plymouth who will see quite a reduction in service ”

D Day The 5th July 2009 sees quite a few changes to the bus network in Plymouth. Although much of the network remains pretty much the same, there are areas of Plymouth who will see quite a reduction in service with many connections lost, or at least requiring a change of buses. This post serves as a recap of the changes detailed in full over the past week (follow the More… link to the detailed post)  along with other changes announced for the same date. 4 City Centre - Keyham Remains much the same but looses evening service on Sundays. More First 6 City Centre - Goosewell Day time service remains as before with First. Evenings it switches to Target Travel and reduced to hourly. More First / Target 7D City Centre - Radford Park Route transfers to Target Travel from Citybus. Looses last two evening runs. Mon - Sat only. More Target 10 City Centre - Derriford Hospital Reduced to just 4 morning peak and 3 afternoon peak runs. In between these times Taxibus 226 covers some sections. More Target 12 12A Plympton Town Service New commercial service by Citybus Monday to Saturdays to fill in some of the gaps left by service 19 which is now run peak time only by Target Travel. More Citybus 13 City Centre - Saltash Passage Remains Saturday only but now operated by Plymouth Citybus. More Citybus 14 City Centre - Derriford Hospital New route Monday to Saturdays by Target Travel. Designed to replace sections of 17, 26A and 39. More Target 16 16B City Centre - Kings Tamerton City Centre - Kings Tamerton - Holly Park Minor timetable change to 16 due to local road conditions. New timetable (pdf) Citybus 18 City Centre - Elburton Service transfers to Target Travel. Minor timetable changes (Starts later and ends earlier!) More Target 19 City Centre - Steer Park Main day time service withdrawn (replaced in part by Citybus 12/ 12A) Just morning and afternoon peak runs Monday to Friday only More Target 20 Railway Station - City Centre - Plympton There are changes in the route and timetable. Most buses now extend to the Railway Station. Evening service on 20 now provided commercially by Citybus to replace the 20A which is withdrawn. More  new Timetable (pdf) Citybus 21 X21 51 City Centre - Plympton One additional journey on the X21 Monday - Friday. All X21s now withdrawn from Greenwood Park Road. Timetable pdf Citybus 22 City Centre - Plympton Minor timetable changes. Timetable pdf Citybus 23 24 City Centre - Mount Gould Due to strong growth the evening services are now operated without support from the council. There are concerns about parking along the route and First tickets are no longer accepted. Citybus 25 City Centre- Barbican - West Hoe One of the few services to see an increase in service! Daytime route up to 3 an hour. Concerns remain about parking. Service will be with step entrance buses to start with but they hope to allocate low floor buses as soon as they are able. Timetable Citybus 26A City Centre - Devonport - West Park Service withdrawn. Part replaced by Target Travel 14 Citybus 29 City Centre - St Budeaux - Derriford Hospital Minor timetable changes Timetable Citybus 34 City Centre - Stonehouse - Stoke - Derriford Hospital Evening services retimed. Timetable Citybus 39 39A City Centre - Hartley Vale - Manadon Park - Crownhill Service 39 sees quite a few changes. The old service has been split up with the Derriford and Looseleigh section now covered by the 14 and the Southway section covered by Taxibus 227. The remaining route is now spilt into 39 and 39A routes each run hourly Monday to Fridays. On Saturdays just the 39 runs although here are a couple of extra runs late afternoon. More Target 42 42A City Centre - Tamerton Foliot Evening service withdrawn. Buses also withdrawn from Plymouth International Business Park. A couple extra peak time runs added to the timetable. Timetable Citybus 43 City Centre - St Budeaux - Ernesettle Minor timetable changes to a few journeys. Timetable Citybus 44B 44C City Centre - Transit Way SERVICE WITHDRAWN. Covered in part by 39 and 226 Target 57 Widewell - Southway - Glenholt - Belliver SERVICE WITHDRAWN. Covered in part by 227 Target 60 60A Derriford Hospital - The George - Broadley Park New commercial service (?) by Target Travel. Provides a Park and Ride link for Derriford Hospital More Target 224 X56 Crownhill - Derriford - Estover - The George Peak time journeys run by Target Travel as X56 are withdrawn and replaced by normal 224 Taxibuses. Taxifast 225 X57 Replaced by new Target Travel 60 60A services Taxifast 226 Estover - Whitleigh New Monday to Friday off peak Taxibus service. Part replaces 10 and 44B. More Taxifast 227 Southway - Belliver New Monday - Friday off peak Taxibus service. Part replaces 39 and 57. More Taxifast Tomorrow I will add a few more thoughts of my own, along with some note on how the operators are presenting the changes.