First have published details of their Christmas bus timetables.
They include a service on Boxing Day on the number 4 route
The number 4 service timetable can be downloaded by clicking here
The number 1 service can be downloaded by clicking here
The number 12 service is available here
For all other routes and variations click here
Download changes to the bus times from the pdf here.
All of the new timetables are linked below and the City of York council have the information to update the stops, so you know what time to catch your bus!
| City, University and Park & Ride buses |
| 1 Wigginton – York City Centre – Chapelfields
4 York Clifford Street – Acomb via Foxwood Lane 6 Clifton Moor – University of York via York City Centre 11 Ashley Park – York City Centre – Bishopthorpe 66 York – York Sport Village via Railway Station and the University of York 66a York – University of York via Lawrence Street 9 Monks Cross – York City Centre* (Park & Ride) |
To ensure customers are fully aware of the proposed timetable changes, First is planning to hold the following three public drop in sessions this week at venues where some of the bigger network changes are taking place:
Haxby – Wednesday 25 September, 2.30pm-5.30pm, Haxby & Wigginton Methodist Church Hall
Acomb – Thursday 26 September – 9am-12noon, Acomb Parish Church Hall
City Centre -Thursday 26 September – 2pm-5pm, City of York Council West Offices
They say, “Further drop in sessions will take place over the next few months as First looks to make further customer-orientated network changes”.
Click here for a map showing the revised (First) bus network in York
The following internet link will take you to a full list of the service changes. http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/york/travel_news/service_updates/?item=9391&conf=0
The offer is likely to be welcomed as the precise working arrangements for the “Acomb bus hub“, and the frequency of the new service on Hamilton Drive, have raised question marks with some users?
The detailed new bus timetables – which will be introduced on Sunday – can now be viewed on the First web site.
However, the Council continues to refuse to release information about bus service reliability in the City.
Ironically a meeting is taking place today which talks about the importance of “journey planning”. It seeks to promote increased bus use but develops acute myopia on the issue of service reliability information.
Uncertainty is the single factor most likely to cause potential bus users to instead opt for the car.
The Council in response to the latest Freedom of Information request, says that it has entered into a confidentiality agreement with the local bus companies.
It receives reliability data but the council claims that it is prevented, by the terms of the agreement, from sharing the information with passengers.
Only an annual reliability figure is published and that on an obscure DPT web site. The latest (2011/12) figures suggest that around 80% of York services run on time.
Incredibly even reliability data on services paid for by the Council taxpayer (around £800,000 is paid out in subsidies each year) is not published.
What has compounded the mistake has been a decision to cease independent checks of service reliability. These would not be covered by the data sharing protocol and could – as happened in the period up to 2011 – be published. Labour stopped the checks shortly after taking office.
The so called data sharing protocol is effectively a restrictive practice. which is to the disadvantage of the taxpayer and bus passenger.
It is likely that – unless more information is offered – that an appeal to the Information Commissioner (and possibly the Ombudsman) may be lodged.
In the mean time the governments Transport Minister is being urged to introduce regulations which require all public transport providers to publish the same quality of service information which rail operators have been forced to do for over a decade.
