First changes: Focus on Thornhill & Sholing (Kathleen Road)

Velvet S2 has been saved, but will be rerouted giving a new way to get to the General Hospital. Full details here.

Back now to our series on First's network changes from 30th June. Today we look at route 3 between town and Thornhill.

The route here is staying exactly the same, apart from on the City Centre side of Itchen Bridge, where the 3 will run via Ocean Village instead of Central Bridge, the blue box on this map:

The evening extensions to Harefield will no longer run however. Anyone needing to get to Harefield will need to use new route 13 (see previous posts).

Here's how the timetable is changing between town and Thornhill:

No change to frequencies. The first bus of the morning will be later Mon-Sat, but the last bus from town will be later than it currently is every day.

You can see the new timetables that start 30th June for all First routes here and that for the 3 here.

Next up: Bassett Green & Swaythling