Bus service changes

I recently received notification from the council’s city development department about citywide changes to National Express bus routes from 4 May.

Those that include Broughty Ferry are:

• Service 5 will be combined with a new X5 service operating directly to Ninewells every 15 minutes. Along with the outer circle there will be eight departures each hour from Barnhill/Broughty Ferry toward Dundee city centre. The X5 will operate non-stop from Dalgleish Road to Seagate.

• Service 5N will be cancelled. The night bus service was introduced in 2012 but has not managed to attract sufficient numbers of users to make it sustainable.

• Service 9/10/11/12 (outer circle) will have its route slightly revised with the intention of offering a more direct service between Dundee city centre and Broughty Ferry. The direct connection from Barnhill to Stobswell will be removed as the bus will use Broughty Ferry Road/Blackscroft rather than Arbroath Road/Victoria Street.

I previously supported ‎community requests for a link to Stobswell to be re-established which is now being broken again.

Each time a new bus service is announced for Broughty Ferry I ask that it be routed along Dundee Road to improve the frequency of buses for residents in this location but the new X5 service will also go via Strathern Road.

I have contacted both the council’s transportation section and National Express Dundee about these changes.