Have your say and help our campaign to improve the bus service here
• I am a frequent visitor to the area, and Bridport is really poorly served by the bus service, especially as most other towns have train alternatives
• It is difficult to plan a bus journey for appointments as they don’t run often enough
• Improve bus services all year not just in Summer!
• Buses are our lifeline – please sort out a decent service
• (We need) decent buses – not clapped out ones – a frequent user
• Minimum hourly service + later return times from Dorchester and Weymouth
• Need greater frequency of buses
• Infrequent service. Poorly timetabled for concessionary passes
• The service used to run hourly from 6am till 11pm. The main thing is an hourly 7 day schedule from 6am from Bridport to connect to the 7am Dorchester South train again, and the last return to connect with the 21.00(ish) from Dorchester back (ideally later).
• I currently have to use my car more than I would like, because the bus services are so infrequent. Ideally, the 51 would tie in with the London trains at Dorchester and Axminster.
• Improved scheduling linked to train arrivals and departures would help. I have been stranded in Dorchester with no bus service to take me safely home.
• I would love a later bus, since I have to leave work early in Bridport to be able to catch the last bus home, and also I’d love to be able to attend evening events like live music in Bridport.
• If there were a more frequent and reliable service between Bridport and Dorchester, more people would opt to use it. Hourly/half-hourly services are essential, and the fact that ridership may currently be low is not evidence that it would remain low if there were an improved service.
• Hourly buses would make it possible for me to go to hospital independently.
• Run the X51 on Sundays all year round. Hospital and two railway stations should merit a 7 day bus.
• I would very much like to see Dorset council facilitating and promoting bus use across the county. This would be entirely positive, cutting the carbon emissions of so much car use, enabling families to get out and about and, I believe, building a sense of community by us all using the same transport together.
• A half-hourly service is needed for hospitals and trains. Current last bus times are cruelly early.
• Later bus services should be considered for Hospital Appointments.. with an ageing population, asking for an early hospital appointment to coincide with an inadequate bus timetable is unacceptable and adds pressure on our already struggling hospital system. I don’t venture out in the evenings, as there are no buses that run at a reasonable return time.. it’s like being under a curfew all the time.
• WATAG is a marvellous facilitator and servant for those of us in the Bridport community who are dependent on buses. Thank you
Thank you for all your comments
