Please refer to the earlier blog post to see details of the original suspension of Lansdown Park & Ride, and the 620 bus service that partially met its need.
The three Park and Ride bus services will re-start on a limited basis on Monday 27th April. People should continue to follow the government guidelines and only travel by bus if essential. This includes for essential shopping, accessing medicines and for key-workers to travel to work. First will be taping off some seats on buses to enforce social distancing, so each bus will be able to carry far fewer passengers. Timetable attached.
Dear all,
I would be grateful if you could share the good news that a limited Lansdown P&R bus service on Mondays to Fridays will be re-introduced by First buses from Monday 27th April.
Please see further details from Council Officer, Andy Strong (Team Manager, Public Transport) below and poster attached. Andy asked that it be emphasised that people should continue to follow the government guidelines and only travel by bus if essential. This includes for essential shopping, accessing medicines and for key-workers to travel to work.
“A limited P&R service will be re-introduced on Mondays to Fridays from Mon 27 April. It will run every half-hour from 0800 to 1730 with a lunchtime break.
First will be running all 3 P&R services as “all-stops” services to provide more capacity to mainstream bus services. First will be taping off some seats on buses to enforce social distancing so each bus will be able to carry far fewer passengers.
Buses will leave Lansdown P&R site at: 0800 then every half-hour to 1200, then 1330 and every half-hour until 1730.
Buses will leave Milsom Street to return at 0815 then every half-hour to 1145, then 1315 and every half-hour until 1745
We won’t be able to get the service “live” on the RTI system yet and we won’t be able to get information at every single bus stop. But we’ll do what we can to publicise it”
I feel I should share here information, which is in the public domain, that two Bristol First bus drivers have recently died from COVID-19 which is a reminder of the threat posed by this infection especially to key-workers.
With kind regards
Lucy
Lucy Hodge
Liberal Democrat Councillor for Lansdown Ward