We just read the article about supposed improvements to the 69 bus route, via Bar End.
This may be quicker for people going to the bottom of the town but at the moment plenty of people also get off in St Cross, at St Thomas, and at the The Arc in Jewry Street.
At the same time as this, the 61 bus is being discontinued, which came into town via Romsey Road, including the hospital and the railway station.
People wanting to go to the railway station might have been prepared to walk from The Arc, but from the Broadway is further and uphill. So fare paying passengers would be faced with two bus fares for such a trip, rather than currently just one, and more time.
Perhaps the bus company could arrange to collect only one fare for this, as happens in London.
There would also be longer walks for other places, including the upper half of the High Street, the theatre, the cathedral
There was some consultation about the 61 recently, but not the 69. Perhaps there could be some consultation now, perhaps including an option to run alternate services on the old route.
Otherwise, it seems possible that more people will come in by car.
Andrew Lincoln,
Twyford
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