By the end of June, Stoke-on-Trent will have better evening and weekend bus services in place. This is thanks to the 12 new bus routes which will run from late June until the end of March 2026.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council are going to spend £1.4 million on these 12 new bus routes which comes from the government’s Bus Service Improvement Plan.
The bus routes that are set to be improved are as follows:
- Service 6A: Blythe Bridge – Longton City Centre
- Service 9A: Tunstall – Mill Hill – Bradeley – City Centre (Monday to Friday)
- Service 9A: Tunstall – Mill Hill – Bradeley – City Centre (Saturday and Good Friday)
- Service 19 and 19A: City Centre – Sneyd Green circular services (off peak service Monday to Friday)
- Service 19 and 19A: City Centre – Sneyd Green circular services (peak hour service Monday to Friday)
- Service 21: City Centre – Stoke – Trentham (Sunday and bank holidays)
- Service 43: City Centre – Milton – Baddeley Green (Sunday and bank holidays)
- Service 22: Blurton – Trentham – Newcastle (Sunday and bank holidays)
- Service 11: Longton – Stoke – Newcastle (additional evening journeys from Monday to Friday)
- Service 22: Blurton – Trentham – Newcastle (additional evening journeys from Monday to Friday)
- Service 11: Longton – Stoke – Newcastle (additional evening journeys on Saturday and Good Friday)
- Service 22: Blurton – Trentham – Newcastle (additional evening journeys on Saturday and Good Friday)
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