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Expansion to town’s bus network
From 1 September Thamesdown bus will operate on an anti-clockwise
users will be able to benefit from loop following Cranmore Avenue
additional buses to and from New to return to the town centre. This
College and Great Western Hospital, service will no longer go to Coate
as well as an enhanced commuter Water.
Service 27 to Windmill Hill and a There will be minor timing
revised service from Park South to changes to service 12 from Croft
the town centre. Campus, which will still leave at
The current non-stop service to 5.07pm but subsequent stops will
Great Western Hospital will become be up to 5 minutes later to improve
an all-stop service and so enable reliability.
• Free estimate at your home or work We now complete all repairs in our workshop| more passengers along the route Several service 48 journeys will
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• We will collect and return your car, free of charge, the same day to access both the hospital and also be brought forward by 10 min-
college. utes in order to improve reliability.
Services currently numbered 16X Peter Oliver, Thamesdown’s
will become Service 16, and the commercial director, said: “We’re
frequency will increase to every ten very pleased to be able to introduce
minutes on Mondays to Fridays, improvements to the network. By
instead of every 12 minutes. On increasing the frequency and stops
Saturdays the frequency will on service 16, we hope to make sure
increase from every 30 minutes to that no-one needs to wait very long
every 15 minutes. to catch a bus to the hospital.
Commuters to Windmill Hill will “We’ve also identified where we
benefit from an enhanced service think the public will benefit from
during weekday peak commuting additional buses and so boosted
hours, with the merger of services the number that serve workers at
27 and 28 into a revised service Windmill Hill.
27. The frequency of these buses ”A new town services timetable
will improve from the current two booklet and services 46/48 leaflet
buses per hour to up to four per is available from the Thamesdown
hour. Transport Travel Shop on Fleming
Park South residents will see a Way.
change to the route of service 18 See details of the services and the
to make it more reliable. From timetable changes at:
Whitbourne Avenue, the buses www.thamesdownbus.com
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