All day service for Clough Road

A very significant increase in buses along the 'mixed-use' Clough Road in Hull took place on 31st August. Stagecoach weekday morning service 7X from Hull Paragon Interchange to Bransholme North Point Shopping Centre (in this direction only) via Beverley Road, Clough Road, Holwell Road, Sutton Road and Sutton Park was replaced by all day daily service 7C, operating in both directions and serving West Carr Lane and Stockholm Road in Sutton Fields Industrial Estate rather than Holwell Road and Sutton Road.

The improvement has been facilitated by reducing the frequency on service 7 between the Interchange and North Point via Beverley Road and Sutton Park, although given the shared sections of route, the only frequency decrease is on Beverley Road between Clough Road and Sutton Road, and on Sutton Road between Beverley Road and Ennerdale Leisure Centre. Service 7 had operated every 15 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes, every 20 minutes Saturday daytimes, every half hour Monday to Saturday evening and Sunday daytimes and every hour Sunday evenings. The 7/7C now operate a combined every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes (half hourly each) and combined half hourly Monday to Saturday evenings and Sunday daytimes (hourly each). Sunday evenings remain an hourly 7 with no 7C. Note that Saturday daytimes increased from every 20 minutes to every 15 minutes over the shared sections of route. All early morning/morning peak departures from North Point operate as a 7, likewise on Monday to Friday evenings. 

Interworked service 8 between Hull Paragon Interchange and North Point via Holderness Road, Salthouse Road, Bellfield Avenue and Spring Cottage was also amended at the same time. Any journey that continues at North Point as a 7C has been renumbered to 8C; the same doesn't apply in the other direction making the 8C a 'one-way' only route.

The Saturday daytime frequency on service 8/8C has also been reduced from every 20 minutes to half hourly, although the 8 is timed to offer a 15 minute frequency over common sections of route with the 11 and 111. Positively, later Saturday evening journeys have been added to service 8 at 2150 and 2250 from Paragon Interchange. On Sundays the 8/8C has been reduced from every half hour to hourly.

Finally the 'closed door' service C241 from North Bransholme to Heron Foods at Melton became a public service renumbered to 7M. It follows the 255/256 route from North Bransholme to Boothferry Road Costello Stadium via Bodmin Road, North Point, Sutton Park, Beverley Road, Paragon Interchange, Hull Royal Infirmary and Fiveways, which is also the same route as the 7 between North Point and the Interchange. From Costello Stadium the 7M operates via Boothferry Estate, Hessle Square and North Ferriby. To show the range of services now available from North Bransholme, Bransholme, Sutton Park and Beverley Road to Hull Royal Infirmary, the MKM Stadium and Fiveways, there is now a Humber Transport summary timetable available here.