Sheffield Bus Partnership update

[Guest busdriver1]

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Edited August 25, 2015 by busdriver1

[Andy C]

Councillors on the South Yorkshire Joint Authority transport committee have voted to sign off the new network proposal at their meeting this afternoon.

 

The new bus network, along with the new Citybus ticket range and Citywide ticket price reductions will launch on 1st November.

 

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-bus-cuts-agreed-today-find-out-if-your-service-is-affected-1-7438743

Edited September 1, 2015 by Andy C

[northernboy]

Thanks Andy, no surprise there... It's a shame that a decision concerning purely Sheffield buses couldn't have been held in Sheffield, but then I suppose there might have been a bigger public turnout and they wouldn't have liked that!

Any idea whether any sort of printed timetables will be produced? I'm expecting not...

[scentral]

In other news, the 52 will no longer be every 30 seconds, but will now be every 35 seconds.

 

And there will be no changes to the 51 service. It will continue to be appalling.

[Onthetyne]

In other news, the 52 will no longer be every 30 seconds, but will now be every 35 seconds.

 

And there will be no changes to the 51 service. It will continue to be appalling.

 

Why is the 51 so bad?

[Andy C]

Thanks Andy, no surprise there... It's a shame that a decision concerning purely Sheffield buses couldn't have been held in Sheffield, but then I suppose there might have been a bigger public turnout and they wouldn't have liked that!

Any idea whether any sort of printed timetables will be produced? I'm expecting not...

 

It wasn't a public meeting and it had agenda items covering issues across South Yorkshire so it doesn't really make much difference where it is.

 

SYPTE no longer produce printed timetables as a result of government austerity cuts, they are available online as PDFs to print at home however and selected timetables are printed as leaflets by the operators themselves. I assume a map will be produced though.

[scentral]

Why is the 51 so bad?

 

Totally unreliable, especially at night. Driver change-overs on virtually every trip.

The timetable was written by Hans Christian Andersen.

[Andy C]

In other news, the 52 will no longer be every 30 seconds, but will now be every 35 seconds.

 

And there will be no changes to the 51 service. It will continue to be appalling.

 

On the new network route 51 will no longer run via Eastern Avenue, instead going straight down East Bank Road, this should improve journey times and reliability between Charnock and City (although of course still doesn't stop buses getting delayed in traffic at the other side of town)

 

Route 52 will become the 52 and 52A. The 52 will be operated by Stagecoach as per the current Stagecoach route every 10-12 minutes Mon-Sat daytime and every 20-30 minutes evenings and Sundays. The 52A will be operated by First and run the current First route Woodhouse-Hillsborough and on to Wisewood in the daytime. This will run the same frequency as the Stagecoach service and be co-ordinated providing a combined frequency on common sections of every 5-6 minutes Mon-Sat daytime and every 10-15 minutes evenings and Sundays.

[Annie Bynnol]

On the new network route 51 will no longer run via Eastern Avenue, instead going straight down East Bank Road, this should improve journey times and reliability between Charnock and City (although of course still doesn't stop buses getting delayed in traffic at the other side of town)

 

Route 52 will become the 52 and 52A. The 52 will be operated by Stagecoach as per the current Stagecoach route every 10-12 minutes Mon-Sat daytime and every 20-30 minutes evenings and Sundays. The 52A will be operated by First and run the current First route Woodhouse-Hillsborough and on to Wisewood in the daytime. This will run the same frequency as the Stagecoach service and be co-ordinated providing a combined frequency on common sections of every 5-6 minutes Mon-Sat daytime and every 10-15 minutes evenings and Sundays.

 

Thanks for the information.

Any idea if the 52A will use Hillsborough interchange as now?

[Vague_Boy]

Totally unreliable, especially at night.

 

Haven't used the 51 for a couple of months but when I did, it was pretty hit and miss in the evenings. Often a bus would be missing, so a 5 minute wait would become 35 minutes (or more).