05.40 today transformation starts with the new EV Kites @ Butlins Minehead. #electricbuses

The first EV Kite bus in operation. #electricbus

It was great to have our local MP Adam Dance - MP for Yeovil and South Somerset join local residents to voice their concerns to First South West bus services in Yeovil. 👉🏻 Adam has been highly supportive of our local bus services 👏🏻 and fully endorses Catch the bus Month. #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM25

Somerset Council’s Lead Member for Transport and Waste Service, Cllr Richard Wilkins, demonstrating his strong backing for Catch The Bus Month and our efforts here in Somerset to encourage more people to BUS IT. #CTBM25 #CatchTheBusMonth

🌧️ Another rainy Somerset weekend? 🚌 Keep the kids dry and entertained with our brand-new #BusBingo game! 👀 Spot traffic lights, dogs on board + more during your journey first to shout BINGO! wins. 👉 Download your free card: www.somersetbuspartnership.co.uk/busbingo #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM25

Visited Castle Cary Station with @sarahdykeld.bsky.social where buses can now drop off passengers safely within the station complex. Discussed the need to improve the bus connections so more people could connect with trains without needing to drive by car to the station. #CTBM #CTBM2025

Yesterday was the official launch of #CatchTheBusMonth with our friends at Transport for West Midlands and West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker at the fabulous Coventry Transport Museum. HUGE thanks to everyone who turned out and got on board to celebrate our amazing bus services! #CTBM25 #LoveTheBus

Our Stephen, Rowan and Silviya are on board for Catch the Bus Month! It's great to have a chance to show appreciation and ❤️ for the most-used mode of public transport. Find out more about #CTBM25 thanks to @bususersuk.bsky.social: bususers.org/catchthebusm...

Great to be in Minehead yesterday with @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social, Vince Cable, Mohammed Sharjeel &Benet Allen all backing our call for better buses in Somerset 🚍 This service is a lifeline to Taunton for education & healthcare. Proud to have Rachel’s support for #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM #bus

🚍 We’re out across Somerset today for #CatchTheBusMonth! Find us at Wells Market, Axbridge Farmers Market, Evercreech Show, Eat Festival Wellington & Somerton Library. 📖 Free timetables | 💬 Come talk buses! #CTBM

Great to welcome the Mayor of Taunton, Cllr Martin Strauss, to our stall at the Visitor Centre 🚍👏 A strong advocate for buses, he donned the red hands and chatted with local bus users about the network. Thanks for dropping by, Martin! #CTBM #CatchTheBusMonth

We’re at the Taunton Visitor Centre today promoting bus travel 🚍 Come and have a chat with us or pick up bus timetables and info. We’re here until 1:30pm – see you soon! #Taunton #SomersetBuses #Bus #PublicTransport #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM #Somerset

Somerset Bus Partbership was invited by BusUsersUK to attend the official launch of Catch The Bus Month by Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority, on Tuesday at the Transport Museum in Coventry. With Pater Travis is Lydia Horbury, UK Director of BusUsersUK.

🚌✨ We’ll be in Castle Cary today! 📅 Tue 2 Sept | ⏰ 9am–midday 📍 Market House (by the fish stall) ✅ Pick up free local bus timetables ✅ Share your views – we’ll pass them to operators Come say hi! 💬💚 #SomersetBusPartnership #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM

We’re excited to be at the @BusUsersUK launch event in the Midlands to celebrate the start of CatchTheBusMonth.🎉 A great opportunity to connect with partners, share ideas, and keep strengthening the voice of bus users here in Somerset and beyond. 💬💚 #CTBM

🚍✨ It’s #CatchTheBusMonth! ✨🚍 We’re celebrating buses across Somerset all September – with stories, events & free paper timetables at our bus promo stalls. 🚌💚 Hop on board & join us! #SomersetBuses #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM 🌍

Heading to Frome Market Place this morning? Come and see FAVBUG for free bus timetables 🚌 – incl. new D2/D2X, X34 & 24 routes. Changes take effect tomorrow (Sun 31 Aug). #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM

We’re at Glastonbury Tesco until 1pm today! Grab your free bus timetables and share your thoughts on local bus services. Your feedback helps us improve #SomersetBuses #CatchTheBusMonth #CTBM

I'm sorry to say, there is greater dissatisfaction with bus services in Somerset than almost anywhere else in the country,": says Peter Travis, co-chair of @somersetbuspart.bsky.social People in rural Somerset deserve better. @cprecountryside.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

£3 fare cap extended. 💌 🚌

Almost a fifth of England’s rural bus services disappeared in past five years

🚌🎈Are you going to the Bridgwater Food & Drinks Festival today, Saturday 19th April?🎈🚌 We be in Fore Street, Bridgwater you won't miss our gazebo as it will have balloons on it! Drop by and let us know what you think of the buses and pick up copies of paper bus timetables.

Better buses from April 2025 After years of service decline, better bus services are on the way for Milverton, Wiveliscombe and those on routes to Taunton and Wellington. Somerset Council received additional Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) funding for 2025/26 of £3.3m for capital and £2.9m for…

26 new electric buses will be "transformational" for #Somerset bus passengers, according to @somersetbuspart.bsky.social: www.somersetlive.co....#Somerset#LDReporter #Taunton #Wellington #Bridgwater #BurnhamonSea #BSIP #Highbridge #Minehead #Watchet #Williton

Information stall up in the Wells Market Place to 3pm today - come talk buses.

So now we are solving the #HousingCrisis by building motorways. www.gov.uk/government/n... And yet...

Somerset's market towns have a wealth of independent traders, open air midweek & weekend markets. Do you know of any undiscovered gems you want to share? There are over 30 markets in Somerset accessible by bus 🚌 List of Somerset markets: www.somersetbuspartnership.co.uk/somersetmark...

Show some 'Love for the Bus' on Valentine's Day by signing up to this September's Catch the Bus Month! #LoveTheBus #GetOnBoard ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

We need these digital displays which provide real time information showing where your next bus is. We need to campaign for our Wells Bus & Coach Station ( main HUB ), Street Crispin Hall, Glastonbury Town Hall, Yeovil Bus Station, Bridgwater Bus Station, Shepton Mallet The Cenotaph.

Bridgwater’s MP, Ashley Fox, backing buses. #bus #buses #publictransport

The Confederation of Passenger Transport has urged the Government to adopt a five-year funding settlement to unlock the full potential of England’s bus services. cbwmagazine.com/cpt-urges-lo...

Locals to 'take back control' of buses with bill to be debated by peers this week www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

BUT YOU NEED TO DO IT NOW .. CLOSES THIS WEDENDAY. Ps If Somerset Council were to reduce its funding of buses as part of this budget review, it would result in the Government cancelling the £6.5m grant just awarded to Somerset Council for 2025/6 4/4

Click here to go to the Somerset Council Budget consultation somersetcouncil.citizenspace.com/comms/budget... 3/4

If you haven't done so, we would urge you to take part in this consultation, and emphasise that expenditure on public transport (that’s our bus services) should be a priority ... certainly expenditure on public transport should not be cut .. and it ought to be increased. 2/4

TELL SOMERSET COUNCIL TO SUPPORT OUR BUS SERVICES Somerset Council is consulting on what should be the Council’s spending priorities&where it could make savings.As this chart illustrates,Somerset currently spends far less on supporting its bus services than do our neighbouring rural authorities 1/4

In 2025, single fares in Somerset will cost no more than £3 single fare and, on many shorter journeys, you are likely to pay less.

Merry Christmas 🎄🎅 🎁 to all our followers. Thank you for your support this year to improve buses 🚌 in Somerset. There are no bus services in Somerset on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

First Bus Update: We would like to apologise for the disruptions to our services in Somerset over the last 72 hours. We have been working hard to resolve the issues; you can find the latest amendments we have now put in place to services 15, 25, 28A & 54 here: www.firstbus.co.uk/somerset/new...

We haven't been able to stock following: Burnham-on-Sea, Chard Crewkerne Town Council Officers /TIC, Langport, North Petherton, If venues run out let us know

Wells & Wells TIC, Wellington Watchet Library & TIC Williton, Wincanton Wiveliscombe Library Yeovil Bus Station & Library

Porlock Lib, Shepton Mallet Council Office & Library Somerton, Street: Crispin Community Centre, library/info centre, Strode College, Strode Theatre Taunton & Priorswood Library & TIC, more follow

Burnham-on-Sea TIC, Castle Cary, Charlton Mackrell Reading Rooms, Cheddar Lib & Info Centre Dulverton Lib & TIC Dunster visitors Centre Frome Lib & Info CentreGlastonbury & Info Centre Ilminster, Martock, Milborne Port, Minehead & TIC, Nether Stowey: The Thomas Poole Library, Othery Village Hall

Somerset Bus Partnership stocked Libraries &Tourist Info Centres (TIC) 🚍Here we list of where we left paper fsscopies: Barton St David, Bishops Lydeard, Bridgwater & Town Hall, Bruton Town Council, Burnham-on-Sea TIC, Castle Cary, more follow

Consideration needs to be given to 🚌 when planning streetworks. Transport Committee is investigating how to manage the impact of streetworks (works by companies to install, repair/maintain their services which involve digging up roads/pavements). More info👇 committees.parliament.uk/work/8705/ma...

Punctuality is the biggest factor in bus satisfaction - if we prioritise buses we create a virtuous circle of improved journey times and modal shift tinyurl.com/5cn6j2km

Department of Transport press release including information on a select few councils funding allocations. Nothing about Somerset's allocation. www.gov.uk/government/o...

3SEVEN6 rocked Glastonbury Carnival last night