The Premier Route 33 Monday to Saturday daytime services will follow the normal outbound route until Lower Elmstone Drive and then divert up Chapel Hill, along Normanstead Road and onto Warborough Avenue instead of following Hildens Drive onto City Road. It will then continue up onto Little Heath Road and down City Road to reach Partridge Drive via Bitterne Avenue. This route is reversed for the journeys back into town.
New temporary stops can be found at:
Chapel Hill (just before Normanstead Road)
Warborough Avenue (near Normanstead Road turn)
Warborough Avenue (near Longworth Lane)
Little Heath Road (between Little Heath School and City Road turn)
Bitterne Avenue (City Road turn)
A full map and timetable will appear here soon.
For evening journeys Monday to Saturday and all journeys on Sunday, Premier Route 33 will follow the daytime route up Westwood Road and Pierce’s Hill turning onto Lower Elmstone Drive. It will then use Westwood Glen and Chapel Hill to loop back onto Lower Elmstone Drive and follow the outbound route back into town.
For customers wanting to get to City Road during evening times, please use purple 17 as this will be the closest available service to this area.
You can see where the purple 17 goes to and from here >>>>
To check the purple 17 times click here >>>>
A full map and timetable for Premier Route 33 will appear here soon.
Premier Route 33 will not go to City Road on Sundays, but instead will follow the evening diversion as laid out above. This is due to the timing of this service being insufficient for a diversion which would have to go along Little Heath Road.
To help customers who want to travel to this area, we will be diverting the Premier Route 15 to cover. The buses concerned will use their normal route but will turn left onto Park Lane rather than right to the Triangle and will then go to City Road as far as the Bitterne Avenue stop. They will then use Barton Road to turn and reverse the route back into town.
This will mean the Premier Route 15 services starting in Central Reading from 9.15am until 5.45pm will not go to the Tilehurst Triangle as they currently do. Journeys before and after these times will use the normal route. Journeys from Tilehurst back into Central Reading between 9.52am and 6.21pm will be the return journeys of the diversion and will begin from the City Road/Bitterne Avenue stop rather than the Triangle.
For customers wanting to get to Tilehurst Triangle during these times, please use either purple 17 or Premier Route 33.
A full list of Premier Route 15 Sunday times will appear here shortly.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by these diversions.
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