“I think that cutting the 75 route is ridiculous. How about all the young people from this side of town who now attend filton college. Before looking into this for any parent of a 16 year old I'm sure like me they look at how the young person will get there! This seemed great with the bus going right outside. Now first want to take this route away and leave our young people standing on the centre to change buses. Thanks first for the worry you will then be giving to the parents throughout the winter months!!!!!!”

“Good comment Martin Rogers. First are already slashing one of their SHOWCASE routes that we have already invested in. How can they get that so wrong, with OUR MONEY! Let's stop wasting money on buses and invest in TRAINS - people like them and want to use them; not so buses!”

“Interesting point from Martin Rogers - they are axing one of the SHOWCASE routes. These were supposed to be the best First could offer, so if these are being slashed what about the rest. Until fares come down people won't use the buses. Get fares down and passenger numbers and overall revenue will go up. Alternative, fund the local rail services with more investment. People like trains - not buses!”

“This seems like a sensible idea. I have never understood why any services run across the city. I would be interested to know what percentage of passengers use the whole route. Who decided run services from Headley Park say to Henbury for example, why not St Annes or Frenchay as an example.
I have always thought it would be much more efficient to run buses from each district to The city and shopping centres and then back again. If you need to go right across then you change buses. I would think the majority of passengers would benefit from such arrangements.”

“about time the 76 route was used, i have lived in southmead for 30+ years and had a 10 minute walk to get the bus on pen park road at night like many others.fist have got something right this time”

“Is it any wonder that a service that has "reliability and punctuality" issues is then "not well used" as per the comment regarding the 75A? Are they having a laugh? After many an evening being left waiting for a 75A that rarely showed up on time (or at all) we resorted to buying a car. I would gladly go back to public transport should it become more reliable and cost effective...guess the car stays.”

“Well you lot should all be grateful. We are lucky to see a bus in my part of Bradley Stoke. In fact it's been such a long time since one passed this way I've forgotten what they look like (Although I DO remember a single costing me over £3.00 and I Still had to walk over a mile to my house!!)”

“The people of this city, as a whole, are sadly too reliant on the motor car. This hampers the progress of other means of transport. Sooner or later, this will be realised and a breaking point will be reached where the general consensus is "enough is enough" we demand a decent bus service, decent cycling provisions... Hopefully.”

“Having been forced to resort to buses for a week now, I like to know when this city became so dangerous that buses have to travel in pairs. Leapfrogging between bus stops. I have missed one bus caught the next one 15 minutes later only for both buses to reach my destination at the same time. Most sensible countries have buses travel to a central destination and back out, not here, they trek across a busy city having no change of sticking to a timetable.
Fortunately I can check the arrivals online, so don't have t hang around in the wind and rain.
Please let me drive again!!!”

“It is strange having a bus route that runs through the centre and out the other side to southern suburbs... I bet there's very few people who actually make this whole journey....”