{"id":375540,"date":"2025-08-26T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375540\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:56:14","slug":"new-bus-connection-between-avonmouth-and-cribbs-causeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375540\/","title":{"rendered":"New bus connection between Avonmouth and Cribbs Causeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New bus connection between Avonmouth and Cribbs Causeway <\/p>\n<p>Local residents in the Avonmouth area can now check out the new <a href=\"https:\/\/travelwest.info\/westlocal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WESTlocal<\/a> 40 bus timetables ahead of changes from 31 August.<\/p>\n<p>The Service 40 runs between Avonmouth and Cribbs Causeway, via Lawrence Weston, Henbury, and Brentry. It will soon see route and timetable improvements designed to better serve local travel needs.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, the service will be extended to provide a new direct link to shopping and leisure activities at Cribbs Causeway with six return trips per day. Previously this was limited to one school journey each day.<\/p>\n<p>Residents living in Lawrence Weston, Henbury and Brentry will be able to use First Bus no 3 and 4 to travel to\/from Cribbs Causeway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Royston from SevernNet for the 40, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the opportunity to extend our community led Route 40 service to connect Avonmouth with Cribbs Causeway regularly through the day \u2013 Monday to Friday. As a community-led service we\u2019re addressing the feedback we\u2019ve received and look forward to the community\u2019s patronage!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Freeman from bus operator The Big Lemon, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These schemes are in their last phase of WESTLocal funding and the changes being made are in response to passenger feedback. We hope this encourages more people to use these community led bus services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk\/news\/improvements-for-community-run-buses-across-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This forms part of wider changes to WESTlocal buses<\/a>, designed and run by communities, which are funded through the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority\u2019s Bus Grant from UK government until March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A route map is attached. To find the timetable visit <a href=\"https:\/\/journeyplanner.travelwest.info\/service\/38-40-_-y10-%25\/upcoming?region=0&amp;returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fjourneyplanner.travelwest.info%2Froutes%2Fregion%2F0%3Fui%3Dui&amp;goBackText=Go+back+to+Bristol+current+services&amp;ui=ui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travelwest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756216229296-14dbf51b-befa-4203-98e8-c5866cd39790_1-300x218.png\" alt=\"route map showing the journey of the WESTlocal 40 bus route\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/40_Route_Map_PRINT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40_Route_Map_PRINT<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelwest.info\/westlocal\/40-avonmouth-to-brentry\/\" class=\"btn btn-blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New bus connection between Avonmouth and Cribbs Causeway Local residents in the Avonmouth area can now check out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115096360538376266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}