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Travel Alerts
Service 74 - Calver Hey Road
Between 9th - 12th July, Calver Hay Road will be closed. Services will divert as below:
Outbound - From Anstey Lane via Great Meadow Way & Heacham Drive.
Inbound - Reverse of Above.
Please allow extra time for your journey between these dates. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Service 15 - Evington Road / St. Stephens Road
From the 13th - 19th July, Evington Road / St. Stephens Road will be closed.
Outbound - From London Road, via Mayfield Roundabout, Mayfield Road, Beckingham Road & Evington Road
Inbound - Reverse of above.
Please allow extra time for your journey on this date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Service 88 - Saffron Lane
Between 14th - 18th July, Saffron Lane will be closed between Cyprus Road and Fayrhurst Road.
Services will operate via the below diversion:
Outbound - Via The Fairway, Brookfield Rise / Windley Rd, Atlee Way, Pork Pie Island & Glenhills Way.
Inbound – From Glenhills Way via Pork Pie roundabout, Atlee Way, Windley Rd, Brookfield Rise / The Fairway & Saffron Lane.
Service 15 - London Road
From 20:45 on 6 July, services will divert as below:
Outbound - From Charles St, services will operate via St. Georges Way, Swain Street, St. Peters Rd, East Park Rd then towards Goodwood via normal route.
Inbound - From East Park Rd, service will operate via St. Peters Rd, Swain Street, St. Georges Way & Charles Street, dropping passengers off as normal on Charles Street.
Please allow extra time for your journey on this date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Service 26 - Loughborough Road closure
Due to major gas works along Loughborough Road from Monday 3 June, service 26 heading towards the City Centre will need to divert for up to 6 weeks.
Normal route to Thurcaston Road right Abbey Lane, left Abbey Park Road then back to normal route from Belgrave Circle.
Please note that the following bus stops will not be served.
- Talbot Street
- Bath Street
- Victoria Road North
- Shirley Street
- Shaftesbury Avenue
- Ellis Avenue
Customers are advised to board buses towards the City centre along Melton Road.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause
service changes from 14 July
From Sunday 14th July, we’re making changes to the following services for the duration of the Leicester School Summer Holidays.
The school holiday runs from 14 July until 25 August 2024.
View the new timetables here
Services 14 & 14A
Buses will operate every 7/8 minutes between the City Centre and Aikman Avenue during the day Mondays to Fridays. There are no changes to the Saturday or Sunday timetables.
Service 15
A new timetable across the entire week will be introduced to help keep buses to run on time.
Service 16
There are no timing or frequency changes to the timetable. However, on journeys that serve Goodwood the timing point bus stop listed on the timetable will now be the “Greenacre Drive” stop on Ambassador Road rather than the “Gamel Road” bus stop on Goodwood Road.
Service 74
Buses will operate every 30 minutes during the day Mondays to Fridays. There are no changes to the Saturday or Sunday timetables.
Services 88 & 88A
Buses will operate every 7/8 minutes between the City Centre and Saffron Lane during the day Mondays to Fridays. There are no changes to the Saturday or Sunday timetables.
Exploring Leicester over the summer holidays?
The week-day group day ticket will be reduced to £8 (normally £10) for the duration of holidays. Great value ticket, that gives you unlimited travel for up to 5 people!