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The First Bus App can help you plan your journey and arrive at your destination hassle-free.
With real-time information, you’ll spend less time at the bus stop. Check when your bus is due before you leave the house, so you can arrive at your stop just before your bus.
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mTickets
mTickets on our app is the cheapest and most convenient way to buy tickets 24/7.
With a wide range available, including weekly and monthly tickets, you can make your purchase in advance.
Buy tickets securely through the First Bus App with your bank card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and speed up future purchases with the handy ‘Buy Again’ option.
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No cash? No problem. Secure contactless payments are now available on all of our buses.
Paying with contactless is a simple and secure way to pay for tickets without cash. One tap of your contactless card, Apple Pay or Google Pay and you’re aboard and ready to go, no need to worry about having the right change.
You can buy tickets up to the value of £45, quickly and securely with contactless. So whether it’s a last minute trip or a regular journey, paying for your ticket has never been more convenient.
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Stay connected while you travel with our free Wi-Fi. It's your time - use it your way.
It only takes a minute to sign up to our free Wi-Fi on your device. After that, connection is automatic.
1. Select the First Wi-Fi network
2. Open your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer)
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to connect
4. Click 'Use your Free Wi-Fi to browse the internet, or select 'Ticket sales' or 'Timetables'
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Travel Alerts
Falcondale Road/Henbury Road, Westbury - CLOSURE - (1)
The junction of Falcondale Road and Henbury Road in Westbury will be closed overnight to service 1 between 20:00 and 06:00 on Thursday 23rd, Friday 24th and Saturday 25th May (three nights) to facilitate carriageway works.
Service 1 will be diverted after serving Westbury Village and the only bus stops that will not be served will be the Falcondale Walk bus stops in both directions and the Henbury Road one heading towards Broomhill and passengers are advised to board or alight at The Ridgeway (by the junction of Charlton Road) or Westbury Village for both directions..
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
Various Roads, Wells - CLOSURE - (174 & 376)
Various road around central Wells will be closed to services 174 and 376 between 09:00 and 13:00 to facilitate Wells Festival of Running event.
Service 174 will be diverted via the A371 into the Bus Station in both directions and will not serve any bus stops between and including the Bus Shelter/Fountain Cottages in Constitution Hill in Dulcote and HSBC Bank bus stop in Sadler Street and passengers are advised to board or alight at either the Bus Station or the Bus Shelter bus stop on the A371.
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Services 376 will be diverted and will not New Road and HSBC Bank bus stops and passengers are advised to board or alight at the Bus Station for either direction.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
Upper Bloomfield Road, Bath - CLOSURE - (4)
Upper Bloomfield Road in Odd Down, Bath will be closed to service 4 between 07:00 and 19:00 each day from Monday 20th through to Thursday 23rd May (four days) to facilitate carriageway works.
Service 4 heading towards Odd Down will operate normal route.
Service 4 heading towards Bath will be diverted via Wellsway and Frome Road and will not serve the Colbourne Road and Lodge Gardens bus stops and passengers are advised to board at either any bus stops on the Wellsway or Noads Corner bus stop on Frome Road.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
Broadway, Weston-super-Mare - CLOSURE - (7)
Broadway in Weston-super-Mare will be closed overnight to service 7 between 20:00 and 06:00 from Monday 13th through to Friday 31st May (excluding weekends and Bank Holiday Monday) to facilitate carriageway works.
Service 7 will be diverted via Devonshire Road and the A370 to resume normal route from The Runway bus stop in Haywood Village.
Regretfully all bus stops between and including Colombo Crescent on Windwhistle Lane and Gilder Avenue in Haywood Village will not be served and passengers are advised to board or alight at either Broadoak School bus stops on Devonshire Road, Weston Hospital bus stops or The Runway bus stops in Haywood Village for travel in both directions.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
DIVERSION UPDATE - South Road, Weston-super-Mare - CLOSURE - (5)
UPDATE - 14:30 Friday 17th May.
Service 5 can now operate the diversion route along Highbury Road.
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South Road in Weston-super-Mare is currently closed to service 5 and will remain fully closed until 17:00 Friday 9th August (estimated) to facilitate carriageway works.
Service 5 will be diverted from the end of St Josephs Road via Upper Church Road, Lower Church Road, Knightstone Road and Highbury Road to resume normal route at Atlantic Road.
Regretfully the bus stops between and including Upper Church Road and Court Apartments on South Road will not be served and passengers are advised to board or alight at either the All Saints Church bus stop on St Josephs Road or the Highbury Road bus stop on Atlantic Road.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
A432 Badminton Road M4 bridge - CLOSURE - (Y1)
The A432 Badminton Road will be closed from the Willy Wicket roundabout to the junction of Church Road in Frampton Cotterell from 19:00 on Wednesday 12th July to service Y1 until further notice, until at least 2025.
The A432 Badminton Road is still open between Church Road and Cuckoo Lane for vehicles and the bridge will remain open to pedestrians and cyclists until the bridge over the M4 is demolished.
Please note as a result of this closure the service Y1 will suffer inevitable delays and passengers are advised to allow extra time on their journeys. This will also cause delays to all other services in the area due to the high volume of dispersed traffic finding alternative routes.
The Bristol Zone boundary bus stop will be the Quarry Barton bus stop on Bristol Road by Whiteshill Common.
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Service Y1 heading towards Yate & Chipping Sodbury will operate as normal as far as the traffic lights at Hambrook junction but instead of going straight across, will divert left onto the B4058 Bristol Road (serving 'The Stream' bus stop), through Winterbourne village, then turn right into Church Road to its end and left onto Badminton Road (part unaffected) to resume normal route. Service Y1 heading towards Bristol will operate the reverse of the above.
Regretfully the following bus stops will not be served during this closure in both directions:
Hambrook - Cuckoo Lane - Down Road - Park Lane - Station Road - St Saviours Church - Heathcote Drive
Heading towards Bristol the Church Road bus stop on Badminton Road will also not be served.
All bus stops on the diversion route will be observed in both directions including the bus stop outside of the Co-op in Winterbourne village heading towards Bristol.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
Beach Road, Sand Bay - CLOSURE - (1)
Beach Road in Sand Bay will be closed between 09:30 and 15:30 on from Monday 20th through to Wednesday 22nd May (three days) to facilitate carriageway works.
Service 1 (Weston-super-Mare - Sand Bay) will terminate and commence their journey from the end of Lower Norton Lane alongside the park then on departure turn left onto Crookes Lane to resume normal route.
Regretfully the bus stops between and including Sand Road (terminus) and Lower Norton Lane on Crookes Lane will not be served and passengers are advised to board or alight at the end of Lower Norton Lane alongside the park.
Please note the service 1 will commence from the park at the same time as its normal departure time from the original terminus.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
A370, Cleeve - CLOSURE - (X1 & A3)
The A370 in Cleeve will be closed to services X1 and A3 between 09:30 and 15:30 on Thursday 23rd May to facilitate urgent tree felling works.
As a result of this closure service X1 will be unable to serve between Colliters Way roundabout in Ashton and Congresbury and will be diverted via the A38. This diversion will put extra time on its schedule so please allow extra time when making your journey.
Regretfully all bus stops between and including The Jubilee Inn and Congresbury Bridge will not be served and passengers are advised to board or alight at either the Winterstoke Road (heading towards Weston) or Winterstoke Road bus stop (heading towards Bristol) or the Station Road bus stop in Congresbury heading towards Bristol or wait opposite this bus stop outside of the convenience store for travel towards Weston.
Passengers travelling between Bristol and Backwell (as far as Station Road) are advised to use the X8 service.
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Service A3 from the Airport instead of turning left will turn right and follow the X1 diversion above in both directions.
Regretfully the Millier Road (both directions) and Congresbury Bridge bus stops will not be served. Please use either the Station Road bus stop in Congresbury heading towards the Airport or wait on the opposite side of the road outside of the convenience store for travel towards Weston.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
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Clevedon Road, Failand - CLOSURE - (X6)
Clevedon Road in Failand will be closed to service X6 between 09:30 and 15:30 on Tuesday 21st May (one day) to facilitate carriageway works.
Service X6 heading towards Clevedon will operate normal route as far as Ashton Road, then divert through Long Ashton Village, Clevedon Road, Bristol Road to Nailsea High Street then turn right into Clevedon Road to resume normal route at the bottom of Tickenham Hill.
Service X6 heading towards Bristol will operate the reverse of the above.
Regretfully the bus stops between and including Beggar Bush Lane and Summerhouse on Tickenham Hill will not be served and passengers are advised to board or alight at The Star in Tickenham or The David Lloyd Centre on Ashton Road heading towards Clevedon or The Ashton bus stop heading towards Bristol. All bus stops on the diversion route will also be observed including the ones Long Ashton Village in both directions.
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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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ
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Love Saves the Day Music Event - Various roads, Ashton - (X1, X4, X6, X7, X8, X9 & U2)
Our buses on services X1, X4, X6, X7, 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.
We will also be running a shuttle bus service for the event. Looking for details of the shuttle bus? Please Click Here.
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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 25th and again on Sunday 26th 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.
Please note the X1, X4, X6, X7, X8, 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 20:40 onwards from Bristol and the 20:07 onwards from Portishead on Saturday 25th and the 21:10 and 22:10 journeys from Bristol and 20:00 and 20:59 journeys from Portishead on Sunday 26th May.
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Services X1, X7 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 (X7 & 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 25th May - X1 From Bristol - 20:45 journeys onwards.
Saturday 25th May - X1 From WsM - 20:20 journeys onwards.
Saturday 25th May - X7 From Bristol - 21:30 journeys onwards.
Saturday 25th May - X7 From Clevedon - 20:45 journeys onwards.
Saturday 25th May - X9 From Bristol - 21:00 onwards.
Saturday 25th May - X7 From Nailsea - 20:38 journey only.
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Sunday 26th May - X1 from Bristol - 20:50 journeys onwards.
Sunday 26th May - X1 from WsM - 20:27 journey only.
Sunday 26th May - X7 From Bristol - 21:30 and 22:30 journeys.
Sunday 26th May - X7 From Clevedon - 20:38 and 21:38 journeys.
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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 25th May - U2 From Bristol - 21:00 and 23:00 journeys.
Saturday 25th May - U2 From Langford - 22:00 journey only.
Sunday 26th May - U2 From Bristol - 21:00 and 23:00 journeys.
Sunday 26th 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)
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Postal address: First Bus, Enterprise House, Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0DZ