This Sunday will see changes to the bus network as National Express Dundee has revised a number of its services across the city.
The headline news is the reintroduction of the outer circle service after an absence of around four years. This will be operated on a commercial basis during the daytime (Monday to Saturday) with evening and Sunday operations being subsidised by Dundee City Council. The consequence of the outer circle reintroduction is that Service 26 will be withdrawn and Service 14 will be scaled back to a peak time service only (Monday to Friday).
In Broughty Ferry the outer circle service 9, 11 will travel clockwise (downhill) around the Barnhill loop and service 10, 12 will travel anti-clockwise (uphill).
The frequency of Service 5 is being reduced from 8 buses per hour (every 7-8 minutes) to 6 buses per hour (every 10 minutes). Half the Service 5 buses will travel on to Ninewells Hospital while half will terminate in the city centre. Combined with the outer circle, there will be 5 buses per hour, more or less direct, from Barnhill to Ninewells.
The reintroduction of the outer circle will be welcomed by many, particularly those older people in Barnhill and Forthill who, following earlier changes to the bus network, lost a direct route to their medical practices and dental surgeries in the Stobswell area. The outer circle travelling in both directions around the Barnhill loop will also be well received.
A copy of the new bus network map is being distributed to every household in Dundee. The new timetables can be viewed on-line at the National Express Dundee website.
