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Route 21 Quality Bus Partnership
Havant - Leigh Park - Portsmouth operated by Stagecoach
Building on the success of the Quality Bus
Partnership for service 23, Hampshire County Council, Havant
Borough Council, Portsmouth City Council and bus operator
Stagecoach signed up to a Quality Bus Partnership for Service
21 on Monday 26 January 2004. At the same time as signing up to the
partnership Stagecoach launched the new easy access buses for
the route.
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The signing ceremony was attended by local Councillors, council
officers and Stagecoach representatives. Front row, left to
right: Councillor Keith Estlin (Hampshire County Council),
Councillor Alex Bentley (Portsmouth), Councillor Nigel Tarrant
(Havant); back row, left to right: Stuart Reynolds (Assistant
Director, Design and Implementation, Hampshire), Alastair Norton
(Head of Technical Services, Havant), Andrew Dyer (Managing
Director, Stagecoach South)
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In 2003 the frequency on service 21 was
increased to every fifteen minutes during Monday to
Saturday daytimes.
The partners are signing up to provide :
- At least fifteen minute frequency.
- Improving information at bus stops.
- Improvements in integration between bus and rail, including
ticketing initiatives.
- To fund and construct a new bus station at Havant.
- Install bus departure information at the new bus station at
Havant.
- Provide and maintain infrastructure improvements along the
route, which will include new bus shelters, individually named bus
stops, raised easy access kerbs.
- Implement measures to improve bus movement and priority where
possible.
- Joint marketing initiatives to promote bus travel.
This work will start shortly and will take two to three years
to complete. Targets have been set and these include to:
- Increase patronage in 2005/06 on the service by 20% over
1999/200 figures.
- Reduce bus single journey times by 10% by 2006
- Provide low floor buses on 100% of the service 21 journeys by
February 2004.
- Open a new bus station in Havant by 2006.
Full details of the
Memorandum of Agreement for the Route 21 QBP are available through
this link.