Ipswich Buses

Ipswich Buses

Ipswich Buses 188 (R197DDX) working on route 2
Founded	1903
Headquarters	Constantine Road, Ipswich
Locale	Borough of Ipswich
Service area	United Kingdom
Service type	Urban and interurban bus services, school bus
Routes	45
Fleet	71 buses
Operator	Ipswich Buses Ltd
Managing director	Malcolm Robson
Web site	www.ipswichbuses.co.uk

Ipswich Buses Ltd is a bus company that operates in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. It has been operating bus services in the town for over 100 years. Following the deregulation of bus services under the 1985 Transport Act, it became an "arm's length" limited company, with a board of directors responsible for managing and directing its affairs. However, Ipswich Buses is still wholly owned by Ipswich Borough Council and is one of 14 remaining municipal bus companies in the UK. Its depot is situated in Constantine Road, near Ipswich Town's football ground. The company does not compete directly with First Eastern Counties, which has its bus depot situated on Star Lane.

Routes

Urban routes

Rural routes

School Services

Some of Ipswich Buses' town services will continue through as another service on returning to Tower Ramparts Bus Station. For instance, route 7 continues as a 15 through to Maidenhall, route 5 interworks with the 11's, and route 6 continues across town as a 16.

During the evenings and on Sundays interworking is more complex, the current cycle being as follows: 8 Whitehouse & Asda > 12 Chantry (Cambridge Drive) > 9/10 Castle Hill & Whitton > 5/11 Heath Road Hospital > 7/15 Thorington Park, then returning back to 8's.

All other Sunday services (1, 6 and 13) are "stand alone", with the exception of tendered routes 87B/88B and 90/95 which once again interwork.

Park and ride

Ipswich Buses operated the Ipswich park and ride system under contract to Suffolk County Council from 1997^[1]. The service is Charter Marked.

Latterly it operated the service in an allover purple livery with un-named single and double-deck buses, branded Ipswich Park & Ride with a bird logo, and the strapline Fly into town^[2][3].

On 1 November 2008 the operations passed to First Eastern Counties^[4], after Ipswich Buses lost the contract, at a cost of £300,000 to their bottom line^[5].

Fleet

See also

• List of bus operators of the United Kingdom

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ipswich Buses (bus company)

• Ipswich Buses website
• Ipswich Bus Page

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