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• Features / Transport

  Locals ‘left stranded’ by reduced and unreliable bus service

  Residents are complaining that cancellations are hindering their lives

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• News / Transport

  Cheaper bus fares coming soon

  Passenger numbers on buses across Bristol are 25 per cent down on pre-pandemic levels

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• News / Transport

  First reveal which Bristol bus services will be scrapped

  Falling passenger numbers and "acute" driver shortages are being blamed

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• News / Transport

  Lifeline community bus services suddenly axed

  Dial-a-Ride and community minibus services will cease operating on Friday

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• News / bristol balloon fiesta

  Balloon Fiesta shuttle buses axed due to driver shortage

  Organisers said that all other viable options to a shuttle service have been “exhausted”

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• News / Behind the Headlines podcast

  Boss of First bus apologises for lack of reliability

  Doug Claringbold on challenges, fares and the future of public transport in Bristol

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• News / first bus

  Bus services hit as creeping Covid cases cause driver shortages

  An operator has asked for patience as services are disrupted by an "unusually high rate of sickness"

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• News / Transport

  Warning of further bus cuts without government support

  First has announced a raft of changes from January 30

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