This coming weekend, Bluestar are adding buses back into it’s cross-ciry services and bringing them back towards their pre-pandemic levels. This service increase is being attributed to increasing staffing levels.
Bluestar 17 between Adanac Park – General Hospital – City Centre and Weston will increase to a 10 Minute daytime frequency Monday to Saturday.
Bluestar 18 between Millbrook – Shirley – City – Bitterne and Thornhill will also increase to a 10 Minute daytime frequency Monday to Saturday.
While neither of these are the 7 to 8 Minute frequencies that they have previously enjoyed; it’s getting better.

17 was never 7/8 mins, it is back to normal full timetable