I’m not sure whether it will happen at the dead of night or in the early hours. But we will go to sleep with one way traffic on Stratton Way and wake to two way.
The covers will come off all the new traffic lights. The red lights have been shining through the covers for some days now.
The covers will come off all the new bus stops along Stratton Way and the new stops ‘go live’ from start of service on Monday 2nd October. It is intended that the services will stop as shown in the following list, but I’m not sure yet if all of that starts on Monday.
A1 Stratton Way – direction Vineyard (31, 31A, 32, 33, N33, 34, 41, 42, 44, 44A)
A2 Stratton Way – direction Vineyard (X3, X4)
A3 Stratton Way – direction Vineyard (4, 4B, 35, 35A, 35B)
A4 Stratton Way – direction Ock Street (31, 33, 34, 35A, 35B, N31, N32)
A5 War Memorial – direction Marcham Road and Stratton Way (4, 4B, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 44A, 46, 48, 49A, 218, X15)
A6 West St Helens Street – direction Marcham Road and Stratton Way (40)
A7 High Street – No layover anymore at this stop (33, 35, X3, X4)
A8 Bridge Street – direction Culham (32, 46, X15)
A9 Stert Street – Set down only Town Services Only (41, 42)
A10 Vineyard – direction Stert Street, Stratton Way (no change)
A11 Vineyard – direction Oxford Road, Radley Road (no change)
A12 Bath Street – direction Stratton Way (no change)
A13 Bath Street – direction Wootton Road (no change)
This new system will be chaos at first, but hopefully it will help ease some of the constant traffic problems, even though most of them recently have been caused by the road works.
I’m not sure who the genius was who decided a bus station filling up one side of a two way Stert Street was a good idea, but surely someone with common sense should have pointed out that its unnecessary and will cause problems!!
It does seem strange that stop. I have added the bus stop changes since your comment. The Stert Street stop will make more sense as a layby when the carriageway is reduced to a single carriage in a year or so. It will be only for the yellow town bus. So about one bus will stop an hour during shopping hours (Mon to Fri and Sat AM) will drop off mainly elderly passengers. So we will see…