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Less than a latte. A journey on route 54 from Taunton to Yeovil costs less than a latte!
Four services, 58, 54, 28, and 25 were at risk of being stopped or reduced due to low passenger numbers. Last autumn, Somerset Council stepped in with Government money to keep the routes running and launched a campaign to drive up passenger numbers. The 54 and 25 will continue to be supported using Government funding from the Bus Service Improvement Grant until the end of March 2025.
Services 54, 58 and 58a all remain unchanged.
Service 25 from Dulverton, Wiveliscombe and Taunton will continue to serve all points of the route, but in order to ensure the service remains viable, the timetable will see some changes. Some daytime journeys will divert on the Service 28 through Cotford St Luke and North Fitzwarren at certain times of the day, these will be renumbered 28a.
Service 28 will be revised, including some direct journeys between Taunton and Minehead, with an express service to Butlins (X28), which will operate Mondays to Fridays.
Evening services will be retimed to align with trains serving Taunton station.
Show support for your bus route by jumping on board.
Work on Exmoor's B3224 embankment
The damage was caused by bad weather leading to a landslip adjacent to the road edge. There is no way of completing the work without a road closure due to the 30-tonne piling plant which takes up a significant width of the road. A 50-tonne crane is on site alongside 150 tonnes of material.
Once the embankment is stabilised new drainage will be installed, and the carriageway resurfaced. The road is closed until May 2024 when work is due to finish.
See the scale of this project with spectacular aerial footage of the works being carried out.
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