#WestSussBus - finding out your views on the buses

As a partially disabled, elderly, male I rely on bus transport. I frequently use the Syagecoach 700 & Pulse services and have been for the last decade. It amazes me how consistantly clean the uses are and, above all, how helpful and cheerful the drivers are. Well done! I reckon managenent and trainers can take a bow too!

Please could all Chichester buses, including the Midhurst to Chichester No 60, use the bus station as a departing/starting point. It is really inconvenient to have to disembark at South Street. The street is not very wide, there is no shelter and it makes no sense when there is a perfectly good bus station.

I live in a retirement village in Faygate and am taking my life in my hands if I try and cross the dual carriageway so I can catch the 200 or 98 bus into Horsham. The bus that stops in Faygate runs once a week and no trains run at the weekend. Not really conducive to using public transport instead of cars!

We desperately require a zebra crossing at the Faygate roundabout. Almost impossible to get across to the Bus Stop to Horsham as the traffic is going much to fast for an elderly person to cross.

Stagecoach Route 700. The route is STILL operating erratically, and they are STILL using Covid as an excuse for it !!! Buses are operating 2, or 3 in close proximity to each other, rather than at 12 minute intervals. The route - from Brighton to Littlehampton - is apparently too long for them to be able to maintain good order. Maybe it is time for Stagecoach 700 to be confined to operating only between Worthing Pier and Littlehampton / Arundel ( with services provided through to Midnight ). The route between Brighton and Worthing Pier should be run by Brighton and Hove Buses as a separate route, or combined with the current Route 2 that operates to Shoreham and Steyning.

Very disappointed with the limited Stagecoach service to Arundel - the Sunday bus was cancelled after the start of covid, there is now no bus service from any company to Arundel on Sundays. Contrast this with the number of near-empty double-decker buses running from Wick to Littlehampton 7 days a week.

The 60 bus used to go straight from Midhurst to Bognor with a stop at the Bus Station in Chichester. Subsequently the route stopped at the Bus Station and passengers had to get the 600 to travel to Bognor. The next change was for the 60 bus not to stop at the Bus Station at all but take a circular route to the Cathedral whence it proceeded back to Midhurst. A passenger needing to get to the train or bus station now has to undertake a considerable walk which is not easy with luggage or if the passenger has mobility problems. This is a distinctly retrograde step and I would like to know why these decisions were taken and what provision is now planned for disadvantaged passengers. So much for integrated travel

The Chichester 46/47 bus service is great, please keep it going as it is usually very reliable and often comes with friendly drivers. It would be even better if it ran on Sunday's, perhaps every other hour, with 5 services for a Sunday. It would help the local shops and hospitality with extra Sunday business.

It is clear that rural buses are inadequate or non-existent, causing more cars on the road and traffic pollution. I live in Dial Post and there is no return bus service to any of the nearby towns. In other rural areas minibuses or similar run where demand or population are not high- isn't this possible?
We were told it is too dangerous for buses to cross the A24 (though they do so at Washington). If a roundabout was made at Old Barn (where several serious accidents have happened) this would be less of a problem.

I live on the Shopwyke Lakes development and one of the recent improvements was to build a bus stop in Western Road but to withdraw the bus service. My nearest bus stop is at Sainsburys Westhamnet. I am 85.
There is therefore no effective bus service.

Happy with the 52 and 53 buses Chichester but sometimes if early getting to a stop they don’t pause until due time. I have been caught out a few times watching them go passed the end of the road when I would have been at the stop in time if they had paused.

I would use the bus more but for the cost. £4.40 to travel from Bognor Road Chichester ro North Bersted. If I drove and claimed HMRC mileage I would not get that amount back.

Having recently spent some time in Cornwall using their buses, adults pay £5 for a day pass to travel anywhere in Cornwall and you can use any operators services. Cornwall council reviewed their bus services recently, drastically dropping the day pass rate from around £9 so £5 makes bus travel an attractive option again while still providing frequent and reliable services, also if you buy 5 days worth of travel there it's just £20 (£4 a day!). Please could WSCC consider this idea? As I believe it is currently well over £9 for a day pass in West Sussex which also restricts you to only Stagecoach services. Source. https://www.transportforcornwall.co.uk/

We would hope to have a later Bus service ( 50) at Graylingwell Park, Chichester this currently ends around 6pm. So not encouraging anyone to use either the events at Graylingwell Chapel or use the many restaurants in Chichester city Centre. People simply can't get back up here or Summersdale.

We have no bus stopping at Amberley, even though one drives very close by. We have a community run bus but it doesn't run every day or to all the places. Please can't you reinstate an Amberley stop?

Bus services in the rural parts of West Sussex are a joke. There need to be regular and reliable bus services through all the villages. The service through Amberley was so limited that it was barely used and now does not exist. If you want us to reduce car use and use public transport then there needs to be reliable and affordable public transport to use. The alternative in villages like Amberley and Slindon is to have community buses with volunteer drivers.

There are no buses serving Colgate, nr Horsham. I have 3 kids that desperately need a bus service to Horsham for college, social activities & to train station etc. no wonder there’s so much traffic on the road and especially through the village on Forest Road

The practice of changing drivers at the bus stop in South Street, Chichester is causing delays to all services because while the handover is taking place no other buses can take on passengers at the stop. Some drivers expect passengers to walk past the handover bus to board the following bus while other drivers refuse to take on passengers until the bus stop is vacant. This causes confusion for the waiting passengers. Recently a blind person became very upset when she couldn’t establish where to board her bus. Why can’t handovers be carried out at the bus station which is only a few hundred metres away?

The 55 route between Tangmere and Chichester is extremely unreliable. Buses are cancelled without warning and it’s not uncommon to wait for up to an hour for what is supposed to be a 20 minute service between Monday to Friday. The digital signs at bus stops also relay inaccurate information which makes using the service extremely frustrating. Considering that this service takes passengers to and from St Richards hospital the 55 service should be given priority when decisions are made to cancel buses when there is a shortage of drivers available.

The 700 bus goes round Wick every 10 minutes send 1 round Wick bye pass every 20 minutes between Morrisons and Tesco to the station and the town.