Where to catch buses from in Bradford

[dave4jackie]

Where is the best place in bradford to get the first buses apart from interchange bus station or do all the first buses go there

 

[Deerfold]

Many of the cross-city services call at Hall Ings and Westgate, not the Interchange.

This might be useful:

http://www.wymetro.com/uploadedFiles/WYMetro/Content/BusTravel/maps_and_guides/Bradford_WTCYB.pdf

 

[ASharpe]

Buses in Bradford have been disrupted a fair bit recently, with many services not going down Market Street and taking diversions.

Does anyone know when all will be back to normal?

 

[Deerfold]

Buses in Bradford have been disrupted a fair bit recently, with many services not going down Market Street and taking diversions.

Does anyone know when all will be back to normal?

The works on Lower Kirkgate were supposed to finish on Tuesday just gone - I can't confirm if they have or not.

 

[ASharpe]

Thanks Deerfold.

I'll be passing through Bradford on Sunday so I'll get to see how the filling in of that side of the hole has been coming along.

 

[83G/84D]

Thanks Deerfold.

I'll be passing through Bradford on Sunday so I'll get to see how the filling in of that side of the hole has been coming along.

Some might say that all of Bradford is a "......hole", I couldn't possibly comment.

 

[AndyHudds]

Some might say that all of Bradford is a "......hole", I couldn't possibly comment.

I'd have said that's a fair assessment, going down from Odsal into the city centre is depressing.

 

[neilmc]

Even in 1977, when Bradford Interchange was a most impressive new development, half of Bradford's Metro bus services didn't actually use it. Funnily enough, it tended to be the half most served by old half-cabs many of which were still in their blue Bradford livery, whilst the Interchange was awash with brand-new Metro-Scanias gleaming for the photographers.

 

[ac6000cw]

Even in 1977, when Bradford Interchange was a most impressive new development, half of Bradford's Metro bus services didn't actually use it. Funnily enough, it tended to be the half most served by old half-cabs many of which were still in their blue Bradford livery, whilst the Interchange was awash with brand-new Metro-Scanias gleaming for the photographers.

Yes, I was student in Bradford from 1976 - 1980, and even then the Interchange (while an impressive structure) had the feel of a solution looking for a problem, as it isn't really in the city centre. The original Bradford Exchange station it replaced was actually closer to the city centre (and to Forster Square). It also means that departing trains have to start the climb towards Mill Lane Junction and beyond right from the platform end.

While Bradford has long had it's problems, at least it has lots of character - I choose to go to university there partly because it felt like the right place to be, a 'real' city on a human scale (and I never regretted the decision). Pity about Brown Muff becoming another Rackhams though....

 

[JohnB57]

Pity about Brown Muff becoming another Rackhams though....

If only because it lacks the same comedy value.