#WestSussBus - finding out your views on the buses

I think the buses in Worthing are much more expensive than other parts of the country I’ve lived in. I really think a move towards a single ticket or Oyster card system would be a massive benefit to the town

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700 coastlines advertises Wi-Fi not working since pandemic rediculous

We use the 700 service a lot and find it very reliable

The council would like more people to use buses and i agree this would be a good thing , but if will not happen unless you reduce the fares . Buses are only used by school children and pensioners with free bus passes . My wife and I are in our early 60s we would like to use the bus more often but from Goring by sea to Worthing pier is £5.60 return each on the 700 bus . So we will use the car instead and just wait 4 more years for our bus passes. Surely the answer is simply to reduce fares and more people will use the buses , I’ve read the West Sussex bus plan and it’s a frankly useless

My local bus is the 51 bus Horsham bus station to Collingwood Road. There are only three buses a day and the last one back from town is about one o clock. The bus is not well used because of the timetable. We feel we are being discriminated against, being mostly elderly we are unable to go not town in the afternoon either for shopping or to go to the doctors.I used to go to Worthing with my friend on the bus but cannot go any more because I can only get back to the bus station there are no buse to Collingwood Road. When I complained I was told to use the community buses just feel it’s not fair Roffey have buses every half an hour .

Since life has been returning to normal post-Covid, my locakl bus service has got worse and very unreleable.
I use the Stagecoach 700 bus to travel socailly and travel to and from Work in Brighton, a service which is advertised as one bus every 12 minutes (and every 20mins on a Sunday. However, many times the bus has either been so late, or not turned up at all, that I have been late for work in the NHS. Recently, I was threatened with dismissal as a result, even though I make up the time at the end of the day.
Then after work, I often manage to catch the 700 leaving Brighton before 4.20pm. However, if I miss that busm often I wait 45 minutes or more and the passenger number build up. Stagecoach might also put on a single-decker bus at this instead of a much-needed double-decker.
I also experience this at weekends and, on occasions, have missed appointments as a consequence.
I appreciate that traffic volume and roadworks along the coast road hold up bus travel (and this will only get worse as more properties are built, but I have also heard that drivers have left.
We are getting to the stage that West Sussex need to take some form of action to help Stagecoach buses run a more efficient service that COULD be as good as advertised and is a very popular form of travel for social, appointment and employment purposes.

The Brighton to Horsham bus No.17 needs to be restored to a half-hourly service, to provide better connections with rail services, and to offer some form of contingency for when there is a cancellation, due to breakdown or other incident on this lengthy journey.

Please keep them going and regularly . They are important to so many.
The up-to-date message information boards are great.

I think the bus services are great - two wishes - bring back the Compass bus from Worthing to Arundel, and return the Nr 7 Salvington bus to hourly as it was before the pandemic.

I think it is time for Chichester to have a park and ride system so that we can reduce the amount of traffic within the city and built up populated area.
There is a great opportunity to do this now on the site at the old oil depot just off the main Bognor road. A much smaller town like Horsham has managed it well, so why not Chichester.

There are still few or no reliable regular bus services from the rural parts of the NW Sussex area (eg: Billingshurst/Loxwood/Rudgwick/Kirdford/Northchapel/Petworth, etc) to key centres of facilities (eg Hosrsham, Chichester or Worthing). Unavoidable trips to St Richard's Hospital or essential appointments with commercial/medical/professional service providers -predominantly sited in the Sussex coastal or Mid-Sussex zones- present a major difficulty to attend. Taxi fares are exorbitant and unaffordable and community and shopper buses too erratic and infrequent and there is no easy direct rail link. With an increased elderly or otherwise non-driving population (incl statistically more of our younger residents) this is of major concern.

I would like to uss the bus to connect with trains, but it seems to me that the 63 service is quite unreliable, so it is not an option for me, so I will continue to drive as I must get the train I have set out for.

My daughter would like to use the bus for college at Horsham but the 89 gets to Horsham after 10am and leaves before 4pm. Too late in the morning and too early in the afternoon. I had the same issue when working in Horsham. The bus times should enable people to get too and from work. We have to use a car

I use the 700 bus route regularly between Goring, Worthing and Rustington and am very pleased with the Service.

I am a student who has been using the 93 for seven years now and although there are a some weak points, it is overall a good service.
On the positives, the buses are clean, well maintained and have been consistently updated with now voiced announcements, internet and USB ports.
However, the service also suffers from consistent lateness, often with no apology or notice on the Metrobus website/Twitter. Though normally not in the morning, this lateness is relegated to around 5-40 minutes in for the afternoon. A few times the bus has not even showed up, still without notice.
Secondly, the pricing of the Metrobus system, though ostensibly helps students, it actually creates more expense. Not only is this because you cannot receive a student discount when only buying individual tickets but also that the only available ‘pass’ is a up to a 13 week that is irrespective to the term times of students (although they make up a large majority of Metrobus’ customers).
Finally, although pledges by the UK and by the West Sussex county council to adhere to eco-friendly climate change policies, I have seen no improvement nor notice on how Metrobus is improving their services. Like buses in London, Metrobus could aim to introduce hybrid buses, or electric or hydrogen.
Despite all of this, this service is decent.

The 17 Bus service is excellent although it would be great if it could return to a half hourly service.It seems daft while it is an hourly service that sometimes the 89 bus comes a few minute before the 17 picking up passengers waiting for the 17 ?

The 600 bus route should run later every day. It's ridiculous you can't get home from Bognor to Aldwick after 8.pm, particularly on a Friday. The Sunday service is no better. Last bus from Bognor is 6pm.

I live in Aldwick I find the service stops to early in the evening. Example, last bus from Bognor to Aldwick on a Sunday is 6.05 pm, also during the week last bus from above is around 8.40pm.

If as we are informed there is a shortage of drivers, rather than randomly cancel buses rearrange timetables Also why is there still no Wi-Fi especially on the 700 it is just as busy pre covid!!!!