#WestSussBus - finding out your views on the buses

I’ve been commuting recently due to roadworks and today (7 October) is the second time in 4 working days that the 5.25 700 service towards Portsmouth hasn’t arrived until after 6pm.
At a key time for people travelling home after work this is extremely poor. We just want to get home and don’t mind a 10 minute wait but this disrupts our evening and causes not inconsiderable inconvenience.
Management needs to recognise that it’s a service, under contract, and not just a case of “we’ll send a bus when we fancy it”. There should be a clause for reduced fares for buses that arrive more than 10 minutes late and free if over 30 minutes. That might sharpen them up a bit.

The route between witterings & bracklesham to chi (52 & 53) is continuously late and cancelled at the last minute. I, like many others rely on the bus service, as it gets me to work, shops etc. but so often it is just cancelled at the last minute. Even more frustrating, is that since the bus stop has moved to the bus station, none of the bus drivers keep you updated with the bus’s time. Which, late at night feels completely unsafe. A journey costs £3 and it is terrible value for money. At this rate I’m tempted to just buy a car and add to the 100000s of other cars clogging up the birdham road. Why can’t this circular route be made reliable?

The bus service for children getting to school is unacceptable. It’s completely overcrowded with way more people than the registered allowable number. Kids have to sit on the stairs as there is no standing room. It doesn’t stop at Bishop Luffa on occasion without any warning and it’s regularly over 20 mins late. Even if it was a free bus it would be unacceptably unsafe. I have made a written complaint to Stagecoach and had no response.

My parents work in offices during the week, leaving me reliant on the book a bus service to get to and from school most days. In the past year that I’ve been using it, I’ve been picked up later than when my first lesson starts, or left to wait for an hour after I booked to pick me up at on numerous occasions. I’ve also had a few last minute cancellations. I know on-demand services aren’t easy to organise, but please, please sort this out!!

14:45 700 from chi cathedral - left me stranded, despite bus not being late, and passengers telling driver I was about to boatd. V annoyed

I have wanted to make use use of book a bus on a number of occasions. I think it is a useful service AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT RELYING ON IT BEING ON TIME OR EVEN WITHIN THE 45 minute window. I booked a bus for today at 10.15 leaving from Lodsworth. The bus is now arriving in Lodsworth at approx 11.10, ALMOST AN HOUR LATE. I WILL NOT USE THIS ERVICE AGAIN AND I WILL OT RECOMMEND IT EITHER.

Absolute rubbish. Buses are so infrequent on many routes so that public transport is not working for the public's transportation needs. Currently standing at a bus stop outside Denhams, Warnham. Have been here since 10am and the next bus is not until 11.22. The bus shelter is filthy and filled with cobwebs. This is not a good service but I am trapped here as cannot even walk into the village as there is no footpath and it is a main road. Give us an adequate bus service which actually suits the needs of the people who might need to use it

Can you advise what progress has been made in reducing the ghost bus on info boards where buses disappear? I have asked this question before to WSCC but no effective response

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Idea for Compass Bus route 8A
Divert Route 8a towards Worthing from West Parade left at Grand Avenue then right into Bath Road and follow the 8 Route to Worthing Lido Terminus stop. On return journey follow Route 8 to Grand Avenue turn left then right on to West parade to follow its previous route.
This would give Bath Road a 30 minute service plus also a 30 minute service to the shops in Worthings West End.
West Parade is already covered by the 700/11 services which give a frequent service along the sea Front.
service 8a really picks up any passengers along Marine Parade as most people use the 2 stagecoach routes.
Thank you
Steve Winser
West Worthing

I think we have a good range of bus routes in general, however find myself currently living a fair walk from a usable bus route.

My nearest bus stop is conveniently situated but only runs about three times a day around 10, 12, and 1400hrs. This is the bus from west meads to Bognor Regis. It doesn’t give me long enough to run errands, and with the summer holidays coming up would have been great if it ran also at 0800 and I could get back around 1600.

Is there any chance we could look and extending the route in this way? Please? I used to ride a bicycle with my child on the back but he’s too big now, and at only three years old I’m not happy with him riding his own or a tag along yet.

There are other routes nearby but it’s a fifteen or twenty five minute walk away which can be too far carrying shopping and a tired preschooler.

Thank you so much for your consideration. Kind regards,

Kim Clark

The bus provision in Angmering is not fit for purpose given the rapid increase in population over the last few years. I would like to use the bus to commute into work, but cannot due to the hourly frequency of the number 9 and the fact it starts too late and finishes too early missing the busiest times for commuting. You can easily re-route the number 11 to serve Angmering in addition to east Preston. Also, the lack of bus stops on the a259 means it’s also not feasible to use the number 701. It’s a shame angmering village has not been thought about given the amount of new builds being built but other areas of West Sussex seems to be given more of a priority when it comes to bus provision. Surely the council would have funded this before funding a night service between Chichester and Bognor Regis?

Why is there no Sunday service on the 100 Compass bus route. It's a great inconvenience for the carless rural folk . Can't shop,,visit friends or go to church. Other routed have Sunday service ,why not the 100 Horsham to Burgess hill?

Always either late , canceled or on way then completely disappear off App in the mornings! From Chichester to Wittering’s and returning at the end of the day ..

Bus service between burgess hill and royal sussex hospital is pathetic, as an nhs staff after a long day i had to wait almost 1 hour sometimes more than 1 hour for the bus same in the morning i had to leave around 7:30 for a 9am shift. Due to reduced bus on this route life is miserable

I take the 55 bus to and from Westhampnett to Chichester. On the whole the service is good but just recently I had to wait 45 minutes. Also when Goodwood events like Festival of Speed and the Revival are on the bus service ceases to operate.
It would be really good if on the bus stop electronic display it could indicate whether a bus was cancelled so you didn’t waste time waiting. After all life is short.

There is now no bus that goes along Chartres Chichester for students or someone visiting Westgate College and Leisure Centre. The 60 use to stop there now it goes round to Cathedral no stop before. Utter stupidity

When they are on time, they work really well and are cost effective. More than 50% of the time, they are more than 5 minutes late, which complicates arrangements.

Stagecoach staff at Chichester Bus station are so rude , I know buses can be delayed sometimes but often when you ask a question , they are aggressive and rude , their customer service is awful and no one is accountable