*under contract to First West of England
ROUTE INFO
Bus route: metrobus m1 (Cribbs Causeway - Hengrove Park)
Operator: Bristol Community Transport (under contract to First West of England)
Length: 28.7 km (18 miles)
County: Gloucestershire & Bristol
City: Bristol
Country: United Kingdom (England)
PLACES & STOPS ON THIS ROUTE (this is a BRT / bus rapid transit route that works like a tram)
Cribbs Causeway -
00:06 Cribbs Causeway Bus Station
Patchway -
00:22 Fir Tree Close
00:31 Patchway Fire Station
00:48 Aztec West Roundabout
01:08 Patchway Brook
Bradley Stoke -
01:18 Willow Brook
01:32 Webbs Wood
01:38 Great Meadow
Stoke Gifford -
01:52 Great Stoke (temporarily stopping at 01:48 at the time of filming due to roadworks)
02:06 Harry Stoke
Frenchay -
02:18 UWE The Gardens
02:25 UWE Frenchay Campus
02:36 Stoke Park
02:45 Begbrook
Bristol City Centre -
03:25 Cabot Circus
03:36 Broadmead
03:43 The Centre
03:51 Queen Square
04:07 Redcliff Hill
Bedminster -
04:17 Bedminster Parade
04:26 Dalby Avenue
04:42 West Street
04:52 Parsons Street Station
Knowle West -
05:26 Novers Lane
05:32 Inns Court
05:47 Filwood Broadway
Hengrove -
05:55 Alverstoke
06:14 Paddock Gardens
06:37 Hengrove Park
MY OPINION
8/10. The northern section on this route (particularly between Stoke Campus and Begbrook) has amazing scenery, and the section on the M32 is very nice too!
NOTES
Albeit numbered as m1, this route was in reality the 3rd and the most recent to open of Bristol's metrobus routes (opened in January 2019). Bristol's first metrobus route to open was the m3 (City Centre - Emersons Green) back in June 2018, followed by the m2 (City Centre - Long Ashton Park & Ride) in September 2018.
This is Bristol Metrobus' only route not to be directly run by First West of England, instead being run under contract from Bristol Community Transport. However, announcements are the same as those found on First West of England.
This is the longest Metrobus route in Bristol, and also the only one to run cross-city! The m2 and the m3 start/terminate in the city centre.
Metrobus uses a buy before you board ticketing system, common in London and other European cities but non existent in the rest of the UK. Tickets must be purchased either from the iPoints available at every bus stop, from the driver on a non metrobus route (which is what I did on the day of the filming), or can be done using tap on tap off with contactless card payments. A great idea to speed up bus journeys on very busy city routes and make them work like a tram, but sadly the iPoints only accept card payments, which I do not agree as people who only have cash are forced to first board a non Metrobus route first, pay the driver for their day ticket, and then get Metrobus.
Metrobus, alongside Aquae X39 (Bristol - Bath), UniBus U1 (City Centre - Stoke Bishop) and the Park & Ride routes (both Brislington and Portway lines) use dual door buses (a standard feature on buses in London and Brighton), one of the very few bus routes in the UK to use such buses outside of the two aforementioned cities. Personally, dual door needs to be standardised on city routes - it speeds up journey times!
This route, alongside the m3, uses biogas buses, made by Scania (N280UD) with the bodies built by Alexander Dennis (Enviro400 City).
Thanks to @danstransportvideos8281 for supplying me the welcome onboard announcement in the intro!
Thumbnail pic is my own.
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