Bus Routes
At the present time, South Gloucestershire's only scheduled bus services are the 462 and 462A routes, which run at peak hour times from Emersons Green, Mangotsfield and Bromley Heath to either Bristol Temple Meads Station or Clifton Triangle via Bristol City Centre. Service 462A operates on school days only and comprises one single journey from Temple Meads to Emersons Green via Downend. Prior to April 2011 a morning journey from Downend to Temple Meads operated on this route.
Additionally, service 680 which runs during term time from North Corner to SGS Filton via North and South Yate, Coalpit Heath and UWE is also available for use by the general public although the service only operates during term time.
South Gloucestershire also operate route 101 for Friends Life. This service is also a peak time only service with four return runs in the morning and 5 return runs in the evening. The service runs from Axa at Parkway, near Stoke Gifford, to Lewins Mead in Bristol City Centre via the A4174 and M32. This service is not available to the general public.
Because routes are often interworked with school services so yellow school buses are generally used to operate the public services, although certain services can also be worked by National Express branded coaches returning to the depot. For example afternoon workings on the 101 service from the Centre sometimes see a Nat Ex coach used on its way back to the depot, instead of running much of the same route to the depot empty.
South Gloucestershire are the official provider of transport for the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta and operate two routes each year. Buses run from Temple Meads Station to the Fiesta Site via Bristol city centre every 10 minutes from around 9 am until 11 pm across four days. A second service operates hourly from Clifton Down to the Fiesta site. It's worth noting that the same services are operated for the Bris Fest at the same site.
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