Dundee Bus Service Changes
August 2009
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the basic information of all the changes
From
Sunday 16th August 2009, Travel DundeeÕs network review will see
changes to many routes around the City. Fife Council have retendered a number
of services, including routes to/from Dundee. This will affect Moffat &
Williamson, plus Stagecoach services, from the following day – Monday 17th
August 2009. If your service is NOT in the list below, then it will not be
changing. Do bear in mind though that this list only covers services running
within Dundee, plus M&W 92. For details on services in other parts of
Scotland, please call Traveline Scotland on 0871 200 2233.
This
list was compiled with information up to Tuesday 7th July 2009.
Further late updates will be added towards the end of the list.
Travel
Dundee Service 1 City Centre
– Faraday Street (from Sunday 16th August 2009)
Service
rerouted to operate via Main Street and Hilltown Clock once more, not Moncur
Crescent. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Services 1A, 1B City
Centre – St Marys (from Sunday 16th August 2009)
Revised
timetable. Daytime services slightly revised. Evening service reduced every day
of the week to (both 1A and 1B) operating every hour, giving a combined
half-hourly service. Public Holiday (First Monday in April, First Monday in
May, Fourth Monday in July, First Monday in October) services will change to
operate a Saturday Service. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Service 1C City
Centre – Lawside - Craigowl View (from Sunday 16th August
2009)
Revised
timetable and route. Firstly, Service 1C no longer serves Infirmary Brae,
Gardner Street, Johnston Avenue, Dunsinane Avenue or Faraday Street, and will
revert to the previous 1C route via Victoria Road (non-stop from Wellgate Steps
to Provost Road), then Kingsway West Retail Park, Clepington Road, Macalpine
Road, Turnberry Avenue, Dalmahoy Drive, but then revised to operate via
Birkdale Place, Macalpine Road, then turning left into Laird Street, ending at
St Marys terminus. Four weekday peak period journeys are extending to/from
Craigowl View. (For services the rest of the day, see TeeJay Travel 137/138).
Service 1C will once again run around the full City Centre loop, serving the
same stops as the 1, 1A, 1B. Between the first Saturday in December and the second Saturday in January, Service 1C will not
do the double run into Kingsway West Retail Park because of traffic congestion,
so passengers will be required to board/alight on Clepington Road, during these
times only. Public Holiday (First Monday in April, First Monday in May, Fourth
Monday in July, First Monday in October) services will change to operate a
Saturday Service. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee 2, 2A City Centre
– Scott Street – Dryburgh (2A to/via St JohnÕs School)
The
timetable is changing a little, to alleviate reliability issues on the morning
St JohnÕs school run. The 0824 Service 2A on Schooldays from High Street to St
JohnÕs School will become Service 2S (S is the suffix for school journeys used
by the parent company) and will now depart at 0817, running earlier throughout.
On School Holidays and Saturdays, the 0830 from High Street to Dryburgh will
now run at 0817. In order to facilitate this, the 0757 Monday-Saturday Service
2 from Dryburgh to the High Street now departs at 0750, and this change applies
Monday to Saturday. At the same time, the 0902 Monday-Saturday Service 2 from
Dryburgh to the High Street will be replaced with two journeys – a 0840
and a 0922 from Dryburgh to the High Street. The School Holidays Service 2 from
High Street to Dryburgh at 0830 now runs at 0817. Finally, the return Service
2A will also be renumbered 2S. Public Holiday (First Monday in April, First
Monday in May, Fourth Monday in July, First Monday in October) services will
change to operate a Saturday Service. See the new timetable for further
details.
NEW
SERVICE Town & Country Taxis F5 North Fife FlexiZones – Newport, Leuchars Station or Balmullo
See entry under Services 69/70.
Travel
Dundee Service 5 City Centre
– Mill OÕ Mains – Claverhouse – Kirkton – St Marys
This
service will operate for the last time on Saturday 15th August 2009.
Between the City Centre and Claverhouse, Service 36 will replace this route.
Between Claverhouse and St Marys, there are no replacements following the exact
same route as the 5, but the Outer Circle 9/10/11/12 provides links.
Additionally, Service 17S, 28S, and 501, provide links to/from St PaulÕs
School, Gillburn Road, during school travel times.
Travel
Dundee Service 6 Mill OÕ
Mains – City Centre – Perth Road – Hawkhill – City
Centre – Mid Craigie – Mill OÕ Mains – Kirkton – Ardler
Village – Dunsinane Avenue - City Centre
The
one journey that makes up this service (at 0530) will operate for the last time
on Friday 14th August 2009. This will be replaced (between Mill OÕ
Mains and Perth Road/Step Row) by a Service 36C, leaving at the same time.
Travel
Dundee Circular Services 7, 8 (from
Sunday 16th August 2009)
Service
7, Monday to Friday, 0609 from City Centre withdrawn. 1819 from City Centre is
now Service 7A, and terminates at Douglas, Balmoral Avenue. Service 8, Monday
to Friday, 0628 from City Centre now starts from Balmoral Avenue at 0653, and
the 1808 from City Centre now terminates at Forthill as Service 8A. On
Saturdays, the service also starts later, and runs hourly for the first part of
the morning once again. Service 7 from City Centre at 0629, 0659, 0759, 0859 and
1829 are all withdrawn, with the 1759 operating as a 7A to Douglas, Balmoral
Avenue only. Service 8 from City Centre at 0718, 0818, 1818 are withdrawn, with
the 1748 journey operating as a 8A to Douglas, Balmoral Avenue only. See the
new timetable for further details.
NEW
SERVICE Travel Dundee 8X
Ninewells Hospital – City Centre – Barnhill
This
service is registered to start from week commencing Sunday 16th
August 2009, but the first day of operation will be the next day (Monday 17th).
This new bus service will cover for the reductions in service to the 9X, as
well as providing new fast links along Dundee Road and Riverside Drive –
similar to the way you might drive yourself. The route starts at
Forthill/Balgillo/Barnhill, via the loop which is followed on the 9X. The bus
will turn left at the Queen St/Fort St traffic lights in Broughty Ferry (where
the 9X would turn left) and then along Queen Street, West Queen Street, Dundee
Road, Dundee Road West, to Stannergate Roundabout, where the bus then runs non-stop
to Seagate Karate School, before then operating via Commercial Street, Dock
Street, Riverside Roundabout, Discovery Point, Riverside Drive, Riverside
Avenue, Technology Park Apollo Way, then via the Medipark to Ninewells
Hospital. A similar route is served in reverse, except the bus stops at Dock
Street Busway are not served. This route will use all bus stops along the lines
of route, with the exception of the section between Stannergate Roundabout and
Seagate, where the bus runs non-stop. Service 8X will run every 30 minutes,
Monday to Saturday daytimes. An hourly service will run in the evenings,
between Apollo Way and Barnhill only, replacing the similar hourly 9X between
the city and Barnhill only. No service on Sundays, Christmas Day or 1st
January. Service will run a Saturday service on the Dundee Public Holidays
(First Monday of April, First Monday of May, Fourth Monday of July, and the
First Monday of October), plus 26 December, 2 January, and weekdays between
Christmas and New Year. See the timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Service 9X Ninewells
Hospital – City Centre – Barnhill (from w/c Sunday 16th
August 2009)
Timetable
revised. The service will be reduced to a bus every hour between Ninewells and
the City Centre during most of the day, and every 30 minutes between the City
Centre and Barnhill. Most of these journeys are being replaced by the new,
faster, Service 8X. The hourly evening service between City Centre and Barnhill
has been withdrawn, but will be replaced by the new 8X, which will also cover
Riverside and the Technology Park. Public Holiday (First Monday in April, First
Monday in May, Fourth Monday in July, First Monday in October) services will
change to operate a Saturday Service. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Service 14 Ninewells
Hospital – Clepington Road – Ethiebeaton Park (from Sunday 16th
August 2009)
No
longer operates into Kingsway West Retail Park (but the stops on Clepington
Road will be served). A revised timetable will apply, with a bus running every
hour off-peak Monday to Friday, and on Saturdays. Sunday buses now start later,
and finish earlier. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Services 15, 17 Whitfield
– City Centre – Ninewells Hospital – Technology Park – Tesco,
South Road (from Sunday 16th August 2009)
Further
to the major changes in March 2009, changes this time are more minor. Many
journeys run earlier/later than before, with services having journey times
shortened a little, or extended by a couple of minutes. This will help to
ensure maintain a reliable service, including connections to Services 30 &
31 to Liff, Fowlis, Birkhill via South Road Tesco. The service on Dundee Public
Holidays (First Monday in April, First Monday in May, Fourth Monday in July,
First Monday in October) will change to operate a Saturday Service. See the new
timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Service 18, 19 City
Centre – Kirkton (from Sunday 16th August 2009)
Revised
timetable, with extra 18 and 19 journeys to replace some withdrawn 21 services.
Public Holiday (First Monday in April, First Monday in May, Fourth Monday in
July, First Monday in October) services will change to operate a Saturday
Service. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Service 21 City
Centre – Woodside – Kirkton (from Sunday 16th August
2009)
Service
21 will now operate every 30 minutes Monday to Friday peak periods, and
daytimes on Saturday. Monday to Friday off peak service withdrawn, but mostly
covered by Service 23. Monday to Saturday evening and all day Sunday service is
withdrawn. Public Holiday (First Monday in April, First Monday in May, Fourth
Monday in July, First Monday in October) services will change to operate a
Saturday Service. See the new timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Services 22, 22A, 22C Ninewells
Hospital – Downfield/Craigowl View (from Sunday 16th August
2009) Evening service reduced to every 30 minutes daily, with all these
journeys running to/from Craigowl View as Service 22C. Public Holiday (First
Monday in April, First Monday in May, Fourth Monday in July, First Monday in
October) services will change to operate a Saturday Service. See the new
timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Service X22 Ninewells
Hospital – City Centre – Craigowl View Express Service The two evening journeys that make up this service
will operate for the last time, on Friday 14th August 2009. See
Services 1C, 22/22C for alternatives.
NEW
SERVICE Travel Dundee Service 23
City Centre – Stobswell - Woodside – Clepington Road - Fleming
Gardens – Hindmarsh Avenue – Stobswell - City Centre
This
new Monday to Friday off peak Service 23 will operate from Monday 17th
August 2009, bringing back links to facilities in Stobswell, and reintroducing
a shopper facility fort those in Fleming Gardens and Dundonald Street. The
service will start at the Albert Square (Royal Exchange) Interchange at 0900
and hourly until 1500 (note that on schooldays, the last bus runs as far as
Kerrsview Terrace only), and 1600 around most of the route. The route will be out of the City Centre via Victoria
Road, Dens Road, Arthurstone Terrace, Albert Street, Dura Street, Mains Loan,
Mains Drive, Woodside, Mains Drive, Mains Loan, Clepington Road, Provost Road,
Fleming Gardens {West and South}, Hindmarsh Avenue, Sandeman Street, Arklay Street,
Dundonald Street, Harriet Street, Dura Street, Brown Constable Street,
Arthurstone Terrace, Albert Street, Princess Street, King Street, St Andrews
Street, Seagate, Commercial Street. Dock Street, Union Street, Nethergate, West
Marketgait, Courthouse Square, Ward Road, Meadowside, back to Albert Square.
This bus will run ÒHail & RideÓ on roads without bus stops. Service will
not run on Dundee Public Holidays (First Monday of April, First Monday of May,
Fourth Monday of July, and the First Monday of October), plus 26 December, 2
January. See the timetable for further details.
Travel
Dundee Services 28, 28A, 29, 29A
Douglas – City Centre – Charleston loop (from Sunday 16th
August 2009)
Revised
timetable. Buses have more running time during the day, thus individual times
are slightly different. Evening service is reduced to a bus every 60 minutes
per route, providing a half-hourly combined evening service. Public Holiday
(First Monday in April, First Monday in May, Fourth Monday in July, First
Monday in October) services will change to operate a Saturday Service. See the
new timetable for further details.
NEW
SERVICE Travel Dundee Services 36
Claverhouse – Mill OÕ Mains – City Centre
This
new service starts w/c Sunday 16th August 2009, with the first day
of service being the following day (Monday 17th). Service 36 will
provide an hourly Monday to Saturday daytime service from Barns of Claverhouse
[top turning point] at 0700 and hourly to 1700, back from Commercial Street
0730 and hourly to 1730. An earlier morning journey will operate as Service
36C, see below. The route is more or less the same as the previous Service 5,
although the route does now serve Pitarlie Road once more, which the 5 did not.
The service starts from the top Barns Of Claverhouse turning point, Barns Of
Claverhouse Road, Claverhouse Road, Mill OÕ Mains, then operating into the
MorrisonÕs store bus stance, then back out onto Fountainbleau Drive, Pitkerro
Driver, Glenconnor Drive, Pitkerro Road, Pitarlie Road, Longtown Road, Kingsway
East, Pitkerro Road, Albert Street, King Street, St Andrews Street, Seagate,
Commercial Street. Return journeys run back up Victoria Road, Dens Road,
Arthurstone Terrace, Albert Street, Pitkerro Road, then in reverse of outward
route. No service on Sundays, Christmas Day or 1st January. Service
will run a Saturday service on the Dundee Public Holidays (First Monday of
April, First Monday of May, Fourth Monday of July, and the First Monday of
October), plus 26 December, 2 January, and weekdays between Christmas and New
Year. See the timetable for further details.
NEW
SERVICE Travel Dundee Service 36C
Mill OÕ Mains – City Centre – Ninewells Hospital
This
new service starts w/c Sunday 16th August 2009, with the first day
of service being the following day (Monday 17th). Service 36C will
provide a single Monday to Friday morning service from Mill OÕ Mains, Hebrides
Drive Shops, at 0530, via the previous 6 route to Perth Road/Step Row, then
continuing along Perth Road to Harris Academy and Ninewells Hospital. A return
journey will leave Ninewells Hospital at 0613 via Harris Academy, Perth Road,
Commercial Street, then the 36 route to Mill OÕ Mains, then continuing to
Claverhouse. Service will not operate on the Dundee Public Holidays (First
Monday of April, First Monday of May, Fourth Monday of July, and the First
Monday of October), plus 26 December, 2 January, and weekdays between Christmas
and New Year – although the main Service 36 runs to a Saturday timetable
on these dates. See the timetable for further details.
Stagecoach
in Fife Service 42, 42A Ninewells
Hospital – Dundee City Centre – Cupar (from Monday 17th
August 2009)
The
service will now be operated by Stagecoach Strathtay. For most of the day, an
hourly service continues. Within Fife, the journeys which started/ended at Bell
Baxter High School are no longer operated as part of Service 42 (but
alternatives are provided for Fife school pupils). No journeys serve Newport
(aside from the bus stops at the Tay Bridge South Access) or Drumoig, and all
buses now run as 42. Many journeys will run a bit earlier or later than now.
Upon arrival from Fife into Dundee, buses will operate via Seagate, Whitehall
Street, then via Westport and Hawkhill rather than Perth Road, until the
Hawkhill Triangle, when the 42 will then run along Perth Road, Tom McDonald
Avenue to Ninewells Hospital, with two weekday peak period buses running
to/from the Technology Park. (Between the 16A, 42 and 77, Stagecoach will have
three buses an hour to the hospital from along Perth Road). Ninewells Hospital
is served on all journeys (except Boxing Day and 2nd January), including late evening and Sundays. The Sunday
service is now a slightly more even spread, roughly every two hours, plus a
late evening return journey. See the new timetable for further details.
Stagecoach
in Fife Service 69 Cupar
– Kilmany – Gauldry – Dundee City Centre
Stagecoach
in Fife Service 70 Cupar
– Luthrie – Gauldry – Dundee City Centre
Service
69 (and the Service 70 shorts from Luthrie to Cupar) will operate for the last
time on Saturday 15th August 2009. Service 70 main journeys will
operate for the last time on Friday 14th August 2009. This
long-running service is to be replaced by a new Go-Flexi Ôphone and goÕ demand
responsive taxibus service F5, which will allow users from the rural areas
previously covered by these services. Note that this 69/70 is the Stagecoach
service to Fife, and NOT the Stagecoach Strathtay 69 from Barnhill/Broughty
Ferry to Ninewells Hospital/Gowrie Park, which continues unchanged.
Passengers can travel wholly within the F5 operational area (FlexiZone) or to/from this zone to Leuchars Railway Station, Newport, Cupar or the bus interchange point at Balmullo, during these times;
Monday
to Friday 0700 – 0800, 0915 – 1430 & 1615 – 1815
Saturday
0815 – 1815
All
Service F5 journeys will need to be prebooked by telephone, at least 60 minutes
before, and a maximum of one week before travel. Check www.go-flexi.org for further details of this
new service.
Stagecoach
in Fife Service 91 Dundee
City Centre – St Andrews (from Monday 17th August 2009)
This
new service provides up to four buses a day between St Andrews Bus Station, the
new St Andrews Hospital, Bogward, Strathkiness (replacing the 96 at this
point), then Guardbridge, Leuchars, St Michaels, Wormit, Newport, to Dundee
Railway Station, Crichton Street and the Bus Station. See the new timetable for
full details.
Moffat
& Williamson Service 92
Tayport – Bridgehead – Gauldry – St Andrews (from Monday 17th
August 2009)
Revised
route and timetable. New route in St Andrews, extended to serve the new St
Andrews Hospital. Note that this service does not run into Dundee, but stops at
the Tay Road Bridge South Access, for connections to/from Dundee on the 42,
77/77A/77B/77C, 91, 96/96A/96B. See the new timetable for further details.
Stagecoach
in Fife/Strathtay Services 96, 96A, 96B Ninewells Hospital – City Centre – Tayport – St
Andrews (from Monday 17th August 2009)
Revised
route and timetable. Service now entirely operated by Stagecoach in Fife.
Section of the 96, 96A, 96B west of Dundee City Centre is removed (also see
42). Service 96B journeys serving Newport Primary School have been removed from
the timetable, and separate arrangements are being made for those in Fife. The
main daytime service will be an hourly Service 96 from St Andrews direct via
the A91 to Guardbridge, then Leuchars, St Michaels, Tayport, Tay Bridge South
Access, Dundee railway station, city centre, Bus Station, then back to Fife.
Additional short journeys will run to/from Tayport, providing a bus every 20
minutes from Tayport (Shanwell Road) to Dundee City Centre and Bus Station. In
the late afternoon and evening, the route through Strathkiness will be
maintained, but will now display 96A. Weekday peak buses via Strathkinness and
Bogward will also be renumbered, to 96B. For off-peak buses from Dundee via
Strathkinness, see new Service 91. See the new timetable for further details.
NEW
SERVICE Travel Dundee 98A, 98B
Peep OÕ Day Lane – Dundee City Centre (from w/c Sunday 16th
August 2009)
This
new service replaces the companyÕs internal mail & staff bus, and will now
be open to the public from week commencing Sunday 16th August 2009, although
the first day of service will be the Monday 17th August 2009. These
are two similar, but separate, routes, providing a total of four buses an hour
between Dundee City Centre and Peep OÕ Day Lane, the side of the Travel Dundee
garage, providing easy access to the facilities at the Gallagher Retail Park
(Borders, Brantano, Matalan, Mothercare, etc.) Service 98A will run every 30
minutes between Peep OÕ Day Lane, Commercial Street, South Victoria Dock Road,
City Quay, Railway Station, Nethergate, Crichton Street, Gallagher Retail Park,
and Peep OÕ Day Lane. Service 98B will run between Peep OÕ Day Lane and
Commercial Street only, every 30 minutes during the day. The route will extend
to/from Crichton Street between 1830 and 1959 Monday to Saturday only. A
Saturday service will operate on Dundee Public Holiday Mondays and on 26th
December, 2nd January, and the days between Christmas and New Year.
No Service on 25th December and 1st January. See the new
timetable for further details.
Stagecoach
in Fife Services 99, 99A, 99B, 99C
City Centre – Drumoig – St Andrews (from Monday 17th
August 2009)
Slightly
revised timetable to enhance reliability. See the new timetable for further
details.
Click here to download a PDF of the basic information of all the changes