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Alexander Brock

Bristol First Bus services to be reduced over summer due to lower demand from students

Certain First Bus services will be reduced in frequency over the summer due to lower demand from students.

From April 28, Service 70 (Bristol Temple Meads/ City Centre to UWE ) and Service 71 (UWE Bower Ashton to UWE) will go from running every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes.

The frequency of Service 48a (City Centre to UWE) will also go down from every 10 minutes to every 20 minutes.

These changes will be in place until September 15 this year.

The overnight U3 service (City Centre to UWE) will also not operate between these dates due to a "significant drop in demand" by students in the summer months.

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Service 70 will continue to operate every 60 minutes throughout the night.

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Service 8 (Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Zoo) will operate additional journeys on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays to take into account increased visitor numbers.  In addition, there will be extra week day services between July 29 and August 30.

Following the introduction of Service 96 from January 6, there are a number of further minor changes with the morning and afternoon school day only changes re-timed and revised to no longer serve Brislington Tesco, which will improve journey times and avoid traffic congestion on Callington Road, according to First Bus.

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Journeys toward Hengrove depot will no longer serve the bus stop at Wotton Park which avoids buses having to cross traffic lanes to turn right into Callington Road.

Some departure and intermediate running times have been revised on the Severn Express servicing Bristol to Newport via Chepstow to improve punctuality and reliability.

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Ian Coyle, operations director, said: “We regularly review our timetables and routes to ensure we are providing the best possible services for our customers.

At this time of year one of the key considerations is an increase in visitor numbers to popular destinations such as Bristol Zoo, balanced against a significant reduction in students using our services.”

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