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In July 2022, FirstGroup launched the "Southsea Coaster", an open top bus route which ran between The Hard Bus station and South Parade Pier in Portsmouth. This route ran until September 2022. [11] In November 2022 FirstGroup announced that its Southampton-based operations would be withdrawn, citing low patronage numbers and sustainability issues.
The X4 inter-urban bus service benefited from £4.4 million ODPM Growth Area Funding between 2003 and 2006 and has seen annual passenger numbers rise from 325,000 in 2003/04 to over 500,000 in 2004/05.
A low-floor single-deck vehicle of First Hampshire & Dorset in service in Portsmouth during 2011. Buses in Portsmouth are a form of public transport in the city of Portsmouth, England. Motor bus services in Portsmouth began in 1919, and were expanded in the 1930s following the closure of the Portsmouth Corporation Transport tram network.
The morning bus arrives at PNSY at approximately 6:25 am, and the afternoon bus departs at 3:40 pm. Route 2 provides service from PNSY to Rochester at 5:10 pm. Route 103 used to provide additional commuter service to Pease Tradeport, but service was cut in summer 2014 due to low ridership. This route was later reorganized (see Route 20 below).
In September 2023, Stagecoach won contracts for 5 routes in Portsmouth previously run by First Hampshire & Dorset. [42] The company won further bus route contracts from January 2024, namely the D1, D2 and 27; with further enhancements to other bus routes, including the introduction of 24-hour operations on route 23. [43]
A free service in Eastleigh to Chandlers Ford was the first route to be introduced which grew to seven bus routes that mainly served the local Asda and Tesco supermarkets in the region. [7] [8] Since then, nine more routes have commenced including an Open Top Bus "Sea the city" in Portsmouth in 2011. [9]
Coastliner 700 is a bus service operated in West Sussex and south east Hampshire, England, by Stagecoach South between Brighton and Portsmouth via Hove, Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing, Littlehampton, Wick, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Havant, and Portsmouth with a daytime frequency of every 12 minutes on Mondays to Saturdays; the service runs every 20 minutes on Sundays. [1]
Service X4 was launched in 2000 as a Stagecoach Express service named "Cross Country", sharing the name with Stagecoach East's X5 service, which the X4 once connected with at Milton Keynes. The X4 became a Stagecoach Gold route in November 2011 with the delivery of 13 Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodied Scania N230UD double-decker buses.