Stagecoach extended service 33 between Hull Paragon Interchange, Garden Village, Malet Lambert School, Ings Road, Leads Road, Sutton Village, Howdale Road, Kestrel Avenue, Biggin Avenue and North Point Shopping Centre on 1st September. At peak times only, the 33 now extends via Bude Road and Bodmin Road to Kingswood Retail Park (service 11/111 route), then to Kingswood Medical Centre via Runnymede Lane (service 6 route) and finally to the North Bransholme Hilltop Farm roundabout via the otherwise unserved Diversity Drive in one of the new sections of residential Kingswood.
Off peak, the 33 has been renumbered as 33C - these are just 'short' 33's between Paragon Interchange and North Point, but presumably the 'C' is to make this extra 'clear'. Overall frequency remains hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes, rising to half hourly in the evening peak out of Hull City Centre.
This is a slightly different version of what was suggested in March 2025. At that time the 33C was planned as introduced in September, but the 33 would have operated from Leads Road via Wawne Road to Diversity Drive and Kingswood Medical Centre, then via Richmond Way and Barnes Way to Kingswood Retail Park. The originally proposed 33 would have provided a more direct service to Diversity Drive and to Kingswood more broadly, but at the expense of peak time connectivity to Kestrel Avenue, Biggin Avenue and parts of Howdale Road; North Point would also have been unserved at peak times by the 33.
It will be interesting to see if there are any further changes in Kingswood to provide an all day service to Diversity Drive. The 33 looks to be an attempt to provide an initial service in marginal time via a convoluted route; that may make sense whilst the area is being developed and struggles to justify any more extensive provision, but I'm not convinced it will be viable long term.
At the same time the 33S schools service from Victoria Dock to Malet Lambert School - with the afternoon return extended to Paragon Interchange - became a Monday to Friday (including School Holidays) 33A between Hull Paragon Interchange, Victoria Dock, Garden Village, Malet Lambert School, Ings Road, Leads Road, Midmere Avenue and North Point, with a 0745 departure from Paragon Interchange and a 1515 service from North Point.
Associated service 34 between Hull Paragon Interchange, Garden Village, Chamberlain Road and the Stagecoach depot on Foster Street gained extra departures at 1415 and 1515 Monday to Friday from Paragon Interchange and at 1445 from Foster Street.
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I’m all for a better bus service on Kingswood, but the 33 seems really pointless. As you point out, the only unique part of route 33 is Diversity Drive but that doesn’t have any bus stops on it! Every stop the 33 extension serves has other services which are both much more frequent and get into the city centre quicker. There may be a plan to add a bus stop or two on Diversity Drive, but you’d think the council would have sorted that before paying Stagecoach a subsidy for this service.
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