Essex County Council has worked with other bus operators in the county to ensure the services affected are back up and running as quickly as we were able to.
The following services will start to run as follows:
· Service 12 Wickford to Billericay – with Vectare commencing on 31 July 2024 (with a reduced timetable until 5 August 2024 meaning that journeys 10:50 from Wickford, 11:20 from Billericay, 15:30 from Wickford and 16:00 from Billericay will not be operating until 5 August 2024.
· Service 45 Bradwell-on-Sea to South Woodham Ferrers – with NIBs Buses. NIBs had capacity to run this service from 29th July 2024, and so this is already running.
· Service 10 Temple Grove to Pleshey – with Vectare commencing on 5 August 2024 – please note this service will now have a new service number of 48
· DaRT 3 North Braintree – with Flagfinders (CTB) commencing on 31 July 2024
The following services will run initially for 3 months. We understand that users will want certainty for their route, and we will continue to work to understand the best way for this to be provided. Whilst we are looking at the options for these routes, we wanted to provide replacement services as quickly as possible to minimise the impact on the users of the routes. We will continue to work hard to investigate the best options available.
· Service 322/323/324 Bishop’s Stortford to Lindsell / Stebbing – with First Essex Buses commencing on 31st July 2024.
An update on service 99A Chelmsford to Maldon will be provided as soon as possible, we apologise that we have been unable to provide an update on this service as quickly as we have the other routes. Please accept our assurance that we are doing everything we can to find a suitable solution.
Travel will be free of charge on these services as they are currently ‘unregistered’ because of the speed at which we have had to work on this.
SWF Health & Social Care Group 