East Yorkshire service 105 between Hull, Hull University, Cottingham and Castle Hill Hospital became the 45 on 10th November 2024, to fit into East Yorkshire's new 'Beverley Road Lines' numbering scheme. The service remains half hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes, hourly evenings and Sundays. Funded by Hull City Council's Bus Service Improvement Plan allocation, a new 1930 departure from Hull Paragon Interchange is added Monday to Saturday, keeping the half hourly daytime frequency going into the early evening.
Joining the 45 is the new 44 - a 'part route' 45 between Hull Paragon Interchange, Hull University and Cottingham Road (turning at the Cottingham Road/Hall Road roundabout). Also funded by Hull City Council's Bus Service Improvement Plan allocation, the 44 operates four times an hour Monday to Friday daytimes (a 10-20-10-20 minute interval service) and half hourly on Saturday daytimes, to give a combined every 10 minute service with route 45 on weekdays, and every 15 minutes on Saturdays. There are also two mid-evening journeys in each direction Monday to Saturday, after the 45 reduces to hourly.
Cottingham Road has felt underserved at half hourly in recent years, so a frequency increase is welcome. Every 10 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes feels quite high though - a tripling of the frequency.
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I genuinely can’t understand some of the logic behind the spending of Hull’s BSIP cash. Cottingham Road now has a bus every ten minutes, mostly carting around fresh air. Meanwhile Kingswood, the fastest growing part of Hull with over 1000 additional homes under construction, still has the basic 30 minute frequency it’s had for over ten years. Make it make sense.
The service was cut back a year or so ago to a pretty poor circular route on Kingswood when the 11 was shortened. I agree the funding seems to be missing Kingswood out. If, using BSIP funds, the 11 (and 111) was rerouted back through the estate they would be useful services, and this would allow the 6 to go back to its more direct route along Pioneer way.
I believe the intention was to extend the 7 into kingswood, they tried it into just park awhile ago. I am not sure why some 5 journeys can extend to there before the retail park like in 2020
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