Local Passenger Charters

Long Term Road Closure-Victoria Street (Northbound)-1/2/2a/39/X39/72/172/349/375/376/376a/522

31st March - 02nd June 2025

Bristol

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Due to ongoing Travel improvement along the Victoria Street corridor, buses will have to divert from a northbound direction (toward Bristol  Bridge) to use Temple Way and Narrow Plain through to Counterslip then rejoin Victoria Street to resume at Bristol Bridge.

This will not effect traffic heading towards Temple Meads.

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Passengers are reminded to use the Temple meads stop on Temple Way instead of the Temple meads stop on Victoria Street during the closure period.

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For more information please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ

Overnight Road Closure-Thornbury Road,Thornbury-(T1)

20:00-06:00 31st March - 5th April 2025

West of England

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Due to travel improvement works along the Thornbury corridor at Alveston, service T1 will need to divert along the A38 Old Gloucester Road and head in to Thornbury via the east side of the town namely Midland Way.

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Regrettably Leisure Centre and The Ship bus stops will not be served during the duration of the closures.

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For more information, please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ

Overnight Road Closure-Coronation Road (part)-(24)

19:00-06:00 Saturday 29th March 2025

Bristol

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Coronation Road in Bedminster will be closed to service 24 heading towards Ashton only for manhole repair works.

Service 24 will be diverted via Bedminster Parade, Dalby Avenue, Sheene Road and Cannon Street to resume normal route at North Street.

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Regretfully New Charlotte Street, Southville Place, Catherine Mead Street, and Dean St bus stops will not be served during the closure period

All bus stops on the diversion route will be served.

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For more information please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ

Daily Road Closure-Wyndham Way, Portishead-(X4)

09:30-15:30 31st March - 4th April 2025

Portishead

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Due to National Grid works, Wyndham Way will be closed towards the Harbour area only to facilitate sub station works and as such service X4 will have to divert to use Wyndham Way South-East direction to pick up route at the Harbour Road Roundabout to head into Sainsbury's.

Service X4 from the harbour can access Wyndham Way so will be unaffected.

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Regrettably Parish Wharf, Harbour Road and Marina Healthcare Centre bus stops will not be served during the closure.

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For more information please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ

Bristol Bus Station Part Closure: Bays 15-19 (39/X39, 172/349/374/375/376/376a/522) (T7)

Start of Wednesday 26th March - End of Friday 4th April 2025 (estimated)

Bristol

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Electrical works are currently taking place at Bristol Bus and Coach Station as part of our project that is bringing 98 new zero-emission electric buses to our region. The works are installing the infrastructure for charging the electric buses that use the station, and there will be some temporary changes to stopping arrangements for some services whilst the work takes place.

Bays 15 to 19 will be closed from first bus on Wednesday 26th March until the work is completed, which is expected to be at the end of Friday 4th April. As a result, the following services will temporarily be using stops outside of the bus station: -

Service 17 will terminate from Kingswood on The Haymarket (stop B8 or B10) and depart for Kingswood from The Haymarket stop B7 (its usual second stop).

Services 39/X39, 172, 349, 374, 375, 376, 376a and 522 will use The Horsefair stops S3 and S5 opposite the Poundland store in Broadmead (near McDonalds). Passengers can also use the Wine Street stop as usual to board services heading toward Temple Meads.

TrawsCymru service T7 (operated by Newport Bus) will drop off passengers on Bond Street stop S1 and then turn around to pick up at stop S4 that is located in Front of Fabric Land store.

A map showing the location of the above stops is shown below.

Services A1 (Airport Flyer), X1, X4, X6, X7, X8 and X9 and National Express and FlixBus coach services will not be affected.

We apologise for the disruption these changes will cause and thank our customers for their understanding while these important works are carried out.

We will update this page during the closure period to confirm the completion date as the work progresses.

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Service 17 and service 39/X39, 172, 374, 375, 376, 376a and 522 temporary stopping arrangements:

Service T7 temporary stopping arrangements:

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For more information please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

Customer service contact us

Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ

Some maps using OpenStreetMap.

Overnight Road Closure-A4174 Ring Road (Westbound)-m3

20:00-06:00 31st March - 4th April 2025

South Glos

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Due to overnight works the Westbound carriageway of the Ring Road at Bromley Heath will be closed to traffic and as such buses will be diverted from the Willy Wicket to use Badminton Road to Downend, Manor Road at Fishponds then Frenchay Park Road to Stoke Lane Begbrook interchange for M32. This is towards centre only 

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Passengers are advised that this diversion will add some time to inbound journeys and as such cause some disruption to late night trips on the m3 service.

Passengers are also advised that no stops will be served on the diversion route and any passengers wishing to travel to UWE Frenchay Campus should connect at the Begbrook interchange for onward journeys.

The service 19 is unaffected due to terminating at Downend during the closure period.

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Regrettably Hambrook, UWE The Gardens, Frenchay Campus and Stoke Park bus stops toward the Centre, will not be served during the closure period.

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For more information please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ

Long Term Road Closure-Milsom St, Bath-(6/6a/7/31)

03rd March 2025 - April 2025

Bath 

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Due to Long term road works at Milsom street buses will be diverting 24/7 for 5 weeks.

Due to the location of the works service 6/6a and 7 heading toward centre will divert from the bottom of Lansdown Road to use Walcot Street coming down towards Grand Parade for normal route.The service 31 will divert to George Street and turn at Queens Square.

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Regrettably Milsom street bus stop will not be served.

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For more information, please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

Customer service contact us

Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ