#WestSussBus - finding out your views on the buses

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

From Chichester to littlehampton or littlehampton to Chichester there should be a bus running atleast every hour during the early hours of the morning for the people like me who want to go and enjoy time and have a party with their friends but don’t want to pay £40 for a taxi to get back home. Some people just stay out for hours waiting for the trains or the buses to start up again and it’s realistically very unsafe for young girls to be waiting around at early hours of the morning also vulnerable because they’ve had a drink. We should be able to go out and have a reliable way of getting home and being able to go home when we please instead of waiting hours for a bus. Loads of people miss out on having any sort of social life because of the buses which is so unfair. A bus should run once every hour in the whole of West Sussex to be honest for more people’s safety or atleast the mainstream buses like the 700! Thank you

There sometimes seem's to be a shortage of space for buggies/pushchairs due to elderly people with 'walker's that they don't wish to break-down. and it amount's to them taking up to 3 seat's each.
There is also an issue with Collyer's student's boarding the 200 service between Horsham hospital(college opposite)between 2:30 and 4:00pm. taking up seat's and creating problem's for standard passenger's(double-decker's apart) and there is concern again for w/chair spaces and buggies.

I think these buses are absolutely brilliant and so reliable will you be extending the operating hours at all or will it stay from 7am to 7pm

Can the stop for the 700 bus at Arun leisure centre be reinstated?
The centre is well used for exercise as well as being a designated WARM SPACE and bank hub
Thankyou
I await you reply

The no 1 buses Worthing -Midhurst and back don’t join up well with train times in Pulborough and are very unreliable to come home in the evening between 4 and 6. Surely that would mean more people would use it if it worked for commuters from Pulborough to West Chilt and Storrington and the area.

I live in Ferring. I’ve just learnt that Stagecoach are going to re route our lifeline 700 bus from April . This, they claim is because it has to cross level crossing, which is down a lot more since the number of trains was increased last year. Instead we will get a new number 11 bus linking us to Worthing and Littlehampton. This is a vastly downgraded service because it will run only every 30 minutes on weekdays. Daytime only, and only hourly on Sundays. This will cause enormous stress and difficulty to regular passengers , like me, who are non- drivers, are elderly and use the bus for appointments, reaching a train station/ shops, various activities, (in my case exhibiting my paintings in Worthing). I cannot afford cabs, especially since Ferring is charged a premium because of the traffic system on the a259. How are we to get home in the early evening? . We moved here because there was decent public transport. How can they destroy the well being of a community?
At least have the decency to run more buses an hour and into the early evenings. #WestSussBuss

I regularly have to get a taxi into work from southwater to horsham because the bus just doesn’t come. it’s insane and making my living expenses that much higher in a time like this.

I regularly have to get a taxi into work from southwater to horsham because the bus just doesn’t come. it’s insane and making my living expenses that much higher in a time like this.

I regularly have to get a taxi into work from southwater to horsham because the bus just doesn’t come. it’s insane and making my living expenses that much higher in a time like this.

Haywards Heath is a huge commuter town and the prices of houses sure reflect this. However the buses finish around 8pm! Please explain this? How do you expect commuters to get home from the station?

Really concerned about the bus ticket Increase. My two daughters get the 700 bus to school (12&14yrs) so it will now cost me £60 a week to send them to school. Why can't you buy a reduced return ticket or a child rate ticket? Seems disproportionate for families and children to be paying out so much for short bus rides. I think we will have to just stop using the bus entirely even though it's more convenient and get the train in future

The number 60 bus service was atrocious on Saturday, December 14. I was waiting in the cold for the 08.18am at The Cathedral and it was cancelled. This then meant a 40 minute wait at Midhurst for the 70 to Fernhurst, which is usually waiting for me if I catch that 08.18am. In the evening, as I travelled home, the 18.32pm did not turn up and then suddenly just before 7pm two number 60s turned up at once, plus another bus that was going to Chichester, not via Holmbush. The 60 service should run like clockwork, buses should not be cancelled without notice and there was no reason for the 60 to be late on that dark night on Saturday.