Stagecoach are making changes to a significant proportion of their services in the Cambridge area from Sunday 14th April.
A booklet describing the changes is available here, and links to all of the new timetables are also available on the Stagecoach website.
A brief summary of the changes follows:
Citi 2. As previously reported, Citi 2 journeys towards Milton will additionally call at Parkside (the Busway stop). Timetable changes are also taking place – not for the first time in an attempt to improve punctuality.
Citi 3 and Citi 4. Timetable changes.
Citi 4A. This service is being withdrawn.
5. Additional stops will be served in Northstowe, as well as timetable changes introduced.
7. The number of afternoon services is being reduced, Monday to Friday, principally (but not exclusively) on services out of Cambridge. The number of afternoon/early evening trips to/from Saffron Walden remains unchanged, but they will operate at different times from the present timetable, and this impacts on Sawston/Pampisford journeys. Additional timetable changes are also being introduced.
8. The weekday service on this route is being recast, with the consequence that daytime trips will operate every 40 minutes (so 3 rather than 4 trips every 2 hours, a reduction of one quarter). This is a direct consequence of the increased journey times that are being introduced.
9/X9. As has been widely reported in the media, this service will be severely reduced – to just 3 trips in each direction on the 9, and one X9 between Littleport and Cambridge North. The Combined Authority is looking to provide additional services, but it is not certain how soon the tendering process will allow additional trips to be added to the route.
25. This service is being withdrawn.
A. The weekday service will comprise 4 trips per hour (instead of 3) between St Ives and Trumpington. However, the “shuttle” service between Trumpington and the Biomedical Campus is being withdrawn, so there’s a reduction in frequency on that section. The first journey of the day from St Ives (Monday-Saturday only) will depart at 0430.
F. This service is being withdrawn.
PR3. Two additional weekday early morning services will operate from Trumpington Park & Ride (at 0700 and 0715).
PR4. This service will see a reduction in frequency, linked to timetable changes. An additional weekday early morning service will depart Babraham Park & Ride at 0641. Sunday services are unchanged.
Haverhill services (13/13A/X13/131/131A). Barely 18 months since Haverhill services were recast there’s going to be something of an about turn. The Haverhill town services (131/131A) are being withdrawn and routes around Haverhill on the remaining services altered to cover most of the communities whom these served (as was the case before the 131/131A were introduced). The journey time between Haverhill Sainsburys to the Haverhill Bus Station is effectively doubled on most journeys although, to partly compensate for the increased overall journey times between Cambridge and Haverhill Bus Station, the number of trips on the more direct X13 is being increased. There is a full explanation, with maps, in the Stagecoach booklet.
Cambridge Area Bus Users 