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Service 100 will have an improved Sunday timetable

Stagecoach will make a number of changes to bus services in and around Lancaster from 1st September. There are a number of improvements: The services to Ridge, Marsh and the Lower Lune Valley gain additional journeys on Monday to Saturday evenings and there will be more buses between Lancaster and Morecambe via Bare on service 100 on Sunday. There are also extra journeys between Lancaster and Blackpool on service 42. all thanks to the government’s funding for the Bus Service Improvement Plan.

There are also changes to early morning timetables on certain services with some journeys withdrawn at this time of day and most services have “minor changes to improve service reliability” as Stagecoach puts it. Service 5 will no longer serve Heysham Village on Sunday.

For more details please click on the links below.

1/1A University – Lancaster – Heysham

2X Lancaster – Heysham – Morecambe (via Bay Gateway)

4 / X4 Lancaster Railway Station – Lancaster University

5 Overton – Morecambe – Carnforth

7 Lancaster – Vale

10 Lancaster – Ridge

11 Lancaster – Marsh

18 Lancaster – East City Circular

40 / 41 Morecambe – Lancaster – Preston

42 Lancaster – Blackpool

55 Lancaster – Carnforth

81 Lancaster – Hornby – Kirkby Lonsdale

100 University – Lancaster – Morecambe

One of the hazards facing the unwary bus passenger is the diversion of buses due to planned (or unplanned) roadworks that necessitate a road closure, especially when the bit of road closed isn’t near the bus stop and may not be not obvious.

Full marks to Lancashire County Council therefore for providing this information at the Station Hotel stop in Caton during the closure of the road between Caton and Brookhouse currently in place.

Buses could have just remained on the A683, but that would mean missing the main bus stop – and timing point – in the village, so a diversionary route has been put in place. This means that buses towards Lancaster will use the stop on the side of the road that buses to Kirkby Lonsdale usually use and vice-versa – cue for much confusion that has hopefully been averted.

Full marks also to Caton-with-Littledale Parish Council, not only for their supplementary notice that includes a map that makes everything much clearer, but also for arranging with the contractors undertaking the works to provide free taxis on request for passengers to and from Brookhouse. They’ve even thought of providing tear-off strips with the number to ring to book one!

If only all road closures could be handled like this!