16 routes not running at all, 18 cut back to cope with bus drivers’ strikeThe 24 bus in Ashton Vale(Image: @JonCraig_Photos)

First Bus have cancelled 16 different bus routes completely and will operate a reduced service on another 18 as they grapple with a strike involving 600 bus drivers from its two main bus depots in Bristol.

Some of the major bus routes from all four corners of Bristol will be badly affected by the strike action, with services cut to every half an hour or every hour in places, and almost half the routes in the city won’t run at all.

Talks between drivers’ union Unite and First Bus bosses to avert the strike broke down by Monday lunchtime and First have now published their aspiration for the level of services they believe they will be able to provide with picket lines outside two depots at Lawrence Hill and Hengrove.

All of First’s bus services that are based at the Bus and Coach Station in Marlborough Street are running normally – drivers there voted to accept a revised pay offer late last week. But the CityLines services out of Lawrence Hill and Hengrove will be severely reduced or cancelled altogether.

The A1 Airport Flyer service from the bus station and Temple Meads to Bristol Airport will be reduced to running every half an hour, as will many of the cross-city routes that run from north Bristol into South Bristol.

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First said Metrobus services will be operating as normal, as will buses out of the Bus Station to towns outside Bristol like Portishead, Clevedon, Weston, Yate and Thornbury.

It will be community bus services linking different parts of Bristol that will be reduced or not run at all. The full list is as follows, below.

Routes running as normal

Buses on Bath services 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/5a, 6/6a, 7, 8, 13, 19 (to and from Bristol Parkway), 20, 21, 31, 39/X39 (to and from Bristol), 41, 58, D1/D1x, D2/D2x, OS1, U1/U1N, U2, U3, U4 and U5 will run as normal.

Buses on Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset services 1, 1s, 6, 7, 9, 20, 125, 125s, 126, 611, A3 (Weston Airport Flyer), U2, X1, X1s, X4, X5, X6, X7, X9, X11, X12, X14, X18 and X21 will run as normal.

Buses on Wells services 55, 171, 172 (Bath – Bristol), 173, 174, 373, 374, 375, 376, 376a and 376x will run as normal.

The following services in Bristol will run as normal: 16, 17, 19, 39, 349, 522, metrobus m1, m2, m3/m3x, m4, OS1, SB1, SB2, SB4, SB5, SB6, SB7, T1, U2, X1, X4, X6, X7, X9, X12, X14, X39, Y1, Y2 and Y6 will run as normal.

Routes with a reduced service

The services are listed with the route number, then the hours they will operate, and then how often First expects or hopes they will run during those times.

Number 1 07.00-19.00 – Every 30 minutes

Number 2/2a 07.00-19.00 – Every 30 minutes on service 2 between Stockwood and Union Street/The Horsefair only (not serving The Centre). For Southmead and Cribbs Causeway please use service 76.

Number 3 07.00-19.00 – Service 3 will operate every 60 minutes.

Number 4 – will not operate

Number 5 08.00-18.00 – Every 75 minutes between St. Anne’s and The Centre only.

Number 6 – will not operate

Number 7 07.00-19.00 – approximately hourly.

Number 8 07.30-19.00 – Every 15 minutes

Number 24 07.00-19.00 – Every 30 minutes

Number 25 Will not operate

Number 36 College-timed journeys only The only journeys that will run will be the 07.44, 10.34 and 14.34 from Highridge to St. Anne’s, and the 09.10, 13.00 and 16.10 from St Anne’s to Highridge

Number 37 Will run as normal

Number 41 Will not operate

Number 42 Will not operate

Number 43 07.00-19.00 Every 30 minutes between the City Centre and Cadbury Heath only.

Number 44 07.00-19.00 Half hourly.

Number 45 Will not operate

Number 46, 47, 47x, 48 Will not operate

Number 48x 7am to 7pm Every hour

Number 49 Will not operate

Number 49x 7am to 7pm – Every half an hour

Number 50 Will not operate

Number 70 7am to 7pm – Every 30 minutes

Number 72 Will not operate

Number 73 7am to 7pm – Every hour

Number 74 5.30am to midnight – Half hourly between Hengrove and Bristol Parkway. No service between Bristol Parkway and Bradley Stoke. (The m1 and T1 will be running as normal through Bradley Stoke).

Number 75 7am to 10pm – Every 30 minutes

Number 76 7am to 10pm – Every 30 minutes (and will continue to Cribbs Causeway)

Number 77 Will not operate

Number 515 Will not operate

Bristol A1 Airport Flyer 24 hours – every half an hour

Bristol SB1-SB7 Will run as normal

Bristol U1, U1N – Will not operate