Changes to our Starship network will be introduced at the end of November. There’ll be better connections to Burnley General Hospital and improved cross town links in Burnley. Some areas will have low floor buses for the first time.
Our Marketing Director Nigel Eggleton said, “The basic bus network in Burnley and Pendle has remained unchanged for several years now. We’ve been looking at people’s changing travel patterns and the uncertainties caused by the current economic climate. For most passengers the biggest change they’ll notice will be a different number on their bus. We’re changing the numbers to make it more user friendly, for instance the 101 becomes the 1.”
“We’re taking the opportunity to safeguard the network and cope with the impact of the recession but all the areas we currently serve will still be part of our network. With one exception the frequency of buses will be improved or stay the same. For example there’ll now be a bus service between the Burnley Bus Station and the General Hospital every 7 or 8 minutes during the day. There’ll be new links through Burnley Town centre to Sainsbury’s, the Hospital and Nelson. Only one service will see a reduction in frequencies. At the moment there’s a ten minute service from Burnley to Rose Grove, this will change to every 15 minutes.”
“There’s no doubt that the economic situation is having an impact on the area and on our passengers and we have to be prudent to ensure that our services, the vast majority of which are commercially operated without any burden on the taxpayer, stay viable. We have though been hit by a 20% reduction in the reimbursement we receive under the National Concessionary Fares Scheme. For example, if an adult pays a £1.50 fare we receive all the money. If it’s a concessionary pass holder we get just 57 pence. That’s less than the 75 pence we’d receive for a child on the same journey.”
Nigel Eggleton continued, “We look forward to the day when we can run a 100% low floor service and these changes get us a little nearer that target. The Starship 1 service to Todmorden will be low floor. Across the network, as whole, the proportion of journeys operated by low floor buses will rise too.”
“We’re backing up these changes to our services with a review of our own overheads and costs in these challenging times. We are confident that any reduction in employment levels within the company will be achieved through natural wastage.”
The revised services will be introduced on Sunday 29th November 2009.
Our new network...
New route numbers will be used. These will be single digit (i.e. 1 rather than 101) as this has been found to be more user friendly elsewhere.
Starship 1 - Stoops Estate, Bus Station, Lyndhurst Road, Pike Hill, Todmorden
Starship 1A - Bus Station, Pike Hill, Worsthorne, Brownhill, Bus Station
Starship 1B - Bus Station, Stoops Estate, Summit, Bus Station
Starship 6B - Bus Station, Summit, Stoops Estate, Bus Station
Starship 1 will run every 15 minutes between Stoops and Pike Hill replacing 101, 102
Monday to Friday off peak journeys will extend to Todmorden every 30 minutes (replacing service 92)
Evening and Sunday journeys on routes 101, 121, 122 will be replaced by 1A, 1B, 6B but times won’t change
Starship 2
Worsthorne, Brownhill, Bus Station, Browhead, Hospital, Marsden Cross, Nelson, Higherford
Starship 2 will replace 109, but will run via Brownhill Avenue rather than Brunshaw Avenue
Buses will still run every 30 minutes
No change to evening and Sunday service
Starship 4 - Harle Syke, Hospital, Bus Station, Sycamore Avenue, Rose Grove, Accrington Road
Starship 5 - Harle Syke, Hospital, Bus Station, Accrington Road, Rose Grove, Sycamore Avenue
Starship 4 and 5 will replace routes 111 and 112
Buses to Rose Grove will now run every 15 minutes
Along with new service 3 (not Starship) Harle Syke will still be served by 6 buses an hour
Buses will continue to run to Nelson Interchange at times when service 3 doesn't run
Starship routes 2, 4 and 5 will combine with route 3 (non Starship) to provide buses every 7 or 8 minutes between Burnley General Hospital and Burnley Bus Station
Starship 6 - Bus Station, Summit, Bleak House
Starship 6 will replace route 106 but with no change to route
Buses will still run every 30 minutes
2 early morning journeys will no longer run, due to low usage
How will the changes affect each area…?
Todmorden (Starship 1)
Buses will still run every 30 minutes on Mondays to Fridays during the off-peak periods
Low floor buses introduced
Pike Hill & Lyndhurst Road (Starship 1)
Buses will still run every 15 minutes, but now serving the same route rather than alternative directions round Pike Hill
Worsthorne (Starship 2)
Buses will still run every 30 minutes, but at revised times
Brownhill (Starship 2)
Buses will still run every 30 minutes direct to town centre
Daytime journeys will be quicker as the bus will omit Lyndhurst Road
Summit & Bleak House (Starship 6)
No change to times or route, but two early morning buses withdrawn due to low usage
Stoops Estate (Starship 1)
Buses will still run every 15 minutes, but at revised times
Rose Grove (Starship 4 & 5)
Buses will run every 15 minutes, with alternate journeys via Accrington Road or Sycamore Avenue
Browhead (Starship 2)
Buses will still run every 30 minutes, but at revised times
Burnley General Hospital (Starship 2, 4 & 5 and non-Starship 3)
Buses will run every 7 or 8 minutes to/from Bus Station for most of the day on weekdays
Harle Syke (Starship 4 & 5 and non-Starship 3)
Starship 4 & 5, when combined with route 3, will provide 6 buses an hour to Burnley and 2 buses an hour to Nelson
Kibble Bank & Marsden Cross (Starship 2)
Buses will still run every 30 minutes, but at revised times
Higherford (Starship 2)
Buses will still run every 30 minutes, but at revised times
Download timetables for Starship 1 (371Kb)
Download timetables for Starship 2 (529Kb)
Download timetables for Starship 3, 4 & 5 (904Kb)
Download timetables for Starship 6 (248Kb)
Times of buses on routes 1A, 1B & 6B on Monday to Saturday evenings and Sundays are included in the relevant files, so all the times you will need for your local buses can be found in one place.
