With the Government announcement that schools are returning next Monday, bus operators are starting to announce their revised services to start at the same time. First Hampshire & Dorset have released their timetables right across the area. First Wessex, the local brand for Weymouth and Dorset, is no exception.
The New Advice
The Government advice will move from Stay at Home to Stay Local on the same day, so there are a few things to remember:
- All schools & colleges re-open. Universities re-open for practical courses only.
- Childcare and children’s supervised activities can resume to support working parents.
- People can leave home for recreation or exercise with one person from outside their household, in addition to as a household or with your support bubble.
- Care home residents will be allowed one regular visitor.
This means that there will be more people needing to use the bus from Monday. Contactless payments will still be preferred and means that you do not need to interact by handing over cash. First Hampshire are also trialling ToTo on their Eclipse services – I know, I have not talked about that yet.
Changes in Wessex from Monday
Unfortunately, the detail of the changes for Services in Weymouth and Bridport is not as much as some of the information for Solent and City Red. That is a shame, because it means that I have to go in and make sure I can see what is going on.
Within the Weymouth town group of services, there is an increased services on most routes. Services 1 (Portland), 2 (Littlemoor), 3 (Westham), 8 (Chickerall) and 10 (Dorchester) all have increased weekday frequencies and some additional duplication for schools.
Additional schools services are also in place on service 6 (Yeovil) and the Jurassic Coasters X53 and X54.
You not going to mention the new routes from Yellow Buses? https://www.yellowbuses.co.uk/busters-beach-bus-returns They have also registered “Buster’s Forest Explorer” starting in May from Christchurch to Ringwood.