Road Closures: Loves Saves The Day festival-24.05.25-Ashton Court (X1/X4/X6X7/X8/X9/U2)

• Location

  Ashton Court
• Cause

  Festival
• Responsibility

  Local Authority
• Effective

  24/05/2025 - 26/05/2025

Road Closures-Love Saves The Day Festival-Ashton Court-(X1/X4/X6/X7a/X8/X9/U2)

21:00-01:00 Saturday 24th May and Sunday 25th May 2025

Bristol

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Our buses on services X1, X4, X6, X7a, X8, X9 and U2 pass near to Ashton Court and allow travel to and from the Love Saves The Day festival from various destinations. However, there will be diversions affecting these services at certain times and on certain days, meaning they will stop further away than usual at certain times. Please check details below carefully for your service.

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Various roads around Ashton Court will be closed to services X1, X4, X6, X7, X8, X9 and U2 between 21:00 and last bus on Saturday 24th and again on Sunday 25th May to facilitate the egress from Love Saves the Day music event.

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We do expect significant delays in and around the area throughout this event and our scheduled timetable will no doubt be affected. Please allow extra time to make your journey across the weekend.

Please note the X1, X4, X6, X7, X7a, X9 and U2 will be able to operate normal route in both directions until 21:00 on both days under marshal control. However The Ashton and David Lloyd Centre bus stops will not be served in either direction and the Blackmoors Lane bus stop heading towards Bristol will not be served between 21:00 and last bus on both days.

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Service X4 between 21:00 and last bus heading towards Portishead after serving the Merchants Road bus stop in Hotwells will divert via The Portway and the M5, then serve Pill village as normal and normal route to Portishead.

Service X4 heading towards Bristol will operate normal route as far as Pill village as normal then divert the reverse of the above serving to Bristol.

Regretfully the bus stops between and including Winterstoke Road/Blackmoors Lane in Ashton and Blackmoor Road prior to the Pill Road turning will not be served.

Passengers are advised to board or alight in Pill Road or Merchants Road (towards Portishead) or Trinity Church (towards Bristol) in Hotwells.

This will only apply to the 21:10 onwards journeys from Bristol and the 20:36 onwards from Portishead on Saturday 24th and the 21:10 onwards journeys from Bristol and 20.59 onwards journeys from Portishead on Sunday 25th May.

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Services X1, X7a and X9 will be diverted between 21:00 and last bus on both nights via Winterstoke Road, the A38 and Colliters Way in both directions and will be unable to serve Winterstoke Road bus stop and any bus stops in Long Ashton. Passengers are advised to board or alight at either the Winterstoke Road bus stops by Ashton Gate/FC on both sides of Winterstoke Road or the Belmont Hill bus stop on Clevedon Road (X7a & X9) or The Jubilee Inn (service X1). Services will not be able to serve Blackmoors Lane bus stop heading towards Bristol.

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This will only apply to the following:

Saturday 24th May - X1 From Bristol - 20:50 journeys onwards.

Saturday 24th May - X1 From WsM - 20:00 journeys onwards.

Saturday 24th May - X7a From Bristol - 21:30 journeys onwards.

Saturday 24th May - X7a From Clevedon - 20:50 journeys onwards.

Saturday 24th May - X9 From Bristol - 21:05 journeys onwards.

Saturday 24th May - X9 From Nailsea - 20:42 journeys onwards.

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Sunday 25th May - X1 from Bristol  - 21:20 journeys onwards.

Sunday 25th May - X1 from WsM - 20:24 journeys onwards..

Sunday 25th May - X7a From Bristol - 21:30 journeys onwards.

Sunday 25th May - X7a From Clevedon - 20:50 journeys onwards.

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Service U2 between 21:00 and last bus heading towards Langford will be diverted via Winterstoke Road and A38 to resume normal route at Colliters Way roundabout.

Service U2 heading towards Bristol will divert the reverse of the above.

Regretfully the bus stops between and including Lime Kiln Roundabout and Blackmoors Lane will not be served and passengers are advised to board or alight at either Yanley Lane on the A38 or thee Winterstoke Road bus stops by Ashton Gate/FC on both sides of Winterstoke Road.

This will only apply to the following.

Saturday 24th May - U2 From Bristol - 21:00 and 23:00 journeys.

Saturday 24th May - U2 From Langford - 22:00 journey only.

Sunday 25th May - U2 From Bristol - 21:00 and 23:00 journeys.

Sunday 25th May -  U2 From Langford - 22:00 journey only.

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For more information please contact our Customer Services Department

Telephone: 0345 646 0707 (Calls cost 12p per minute plus network charges)

Customer service contact us

Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ