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Grindley Lane in Meir Heath is closed until Tuesday 24th December.

Buses will only be able to serve half of Sandon Road (as far as Kingsmead), Sandon Road, Grindley Lane Roundabout, Meir Park.

In both directions.

Grindley Lane – Meir Heath is closed 

7th December - 24th December

Services affected: 6A, 36A, PC5, PC7, PC9

Diversions as follows: 

6A/ 36A towards Meir Park: 
Normal route to Sandon Road, then around the Green, turning back on to Sandon Road, A50 come off the A50 at the slip road sign posted Cheadle / Stone, at the roundabout turn onto Grindley Lane, Whitestone Road to resume normal route.

6A/ 36A towards Hanley: 
Normal route to Meir Park, then via Whitestone Road, A50, come off the A50 at the slip road sign posted Leek / Stone, at the roundabout turn left onto Sandon Road, go around the Green, turning on to Sandon Road and Broadway.

PC5: 
Needs to pick up the Pupils at the Windmill off Sandon Road that usually catch PC9. They will be waiting around the corner.

PC7: 
Miss out Potters Bar. Start at the bottom of Sandon Road and collect the pupils off PC9 then straight to Hilderstone Road.

PC9: 
Start at Weston Coyney Road pick up PC7 pupils, then down the A50 and pick up the pupils at Springcroft School then pick up all the Pupils at Potters Bar (PC7s also) Then out of Meir Park to Blythe Bridge and resume the normal service.

*PC6, PC8 are unaffected. 

From Sunday 5th January 2025, we're introducing some timetable changes following on from customer feedback received when the September changes went live.  These  timetable changes are to help keep buses to run on time and improve the service we provide on services 38 and 39. 

The new timetables can be found here. 

Services 7/7A City Centre - Kidsgrove/Biddulph

Minor timetable changes to timing points along the route.

Service 21: City Centre - Trentham

Changes are being made to the Monday to Friday timetable.  There will be no changes to the Saturday or Sunday timetable.  

Service 22: Newcastle - Longton

Changes are being made to the Monday to Friday timetable.  There will be no changes to the Saturday or Sunday timetable.  

Service 23: City Centre Newstead

Changes are being made to the Monday to Friday timetable.  There will be no changes to the Saturday or Sunday timetable.  

Service 37: Longton - Hanley - Lymedale Business Park 

New timetable introduced Monday to Sunday  

Services 98/99: Newcastle - Ball Green/Chell Heath

Changes are being made to the Monday to Friday timetable.  There will be no changes to the Saturday timetable

Services 38/39, 38A/39A: Kidsgrove - Hanley - Newcastle - Kidsgrove/Waterhayes 

New timetable introduced Monday to Sunday.  Services 38A/39A will now serve Shelton Boulevard.

Service 101: Hanley - Stafford

new Monday to Friday and Saturday timetable 

103: Hanley - Crewe  

New timetable introduced Monday to Sunday

College Road is closed until further notice.

Services 21 and 23 will be impacted for the foreseeable future until closures have been resolved, the following diversions will be in place:

Outbound Services (to Stoke): 

Diverting via Stoke Road, Copland Street back to normal routing.

Inbound Services (to Hanley):

Diverting via Hartshill Road, Shelton Old Road and Stoke Road back to normal routing.

From Monday 30th September, College Road will be closed to the 25 services until further notice.
 

25 services to Keele will divert via Stoke Road and Station Road.

25 services to Hanley will be the same as it is currently via Leek Road.

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We'll be operating a revised service level over the Festive Season - you can see details below.

Last buses on Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve