Two new evening services added to the KB bus timetable

Two extra evening bus services will be added to the King's Buildings bus timetable following pressure from EUSA president Thomas Graham.

The University of Edinburgh’s Transport and Parking department has agreed to extend the Kings Building’s bus service with two extra evening buses to be in operation from this week.

Mr Graham told The Journal: “It’s fantastic to see that the university have finally listened and agreed to what has always been a big issue on campus. Every student has a right to the same level of student experience and I think this goes some way to ensuring that students at Kings Buildings don’t miss out.”

In accordance with popular demand, the 4.50pm service from Kings Buildings will be rescheduled for 4.55pm.

The two extra services will leave Crichton Street at 5.40pm and 6.20pm and will arrive at Kings Buildings to pick up students wishing to leave at 5.55pm and 6.25pm.

It was decided that based on last year's patronage figures the expected demand for the 8.40am service post-Easter does not warrant an additional bus at this time. However it will be incorporated into the revised 2010/11 timetable.

The buses will be free to all of those who have a matriculation card and will be provided by Lothian Buses (funded by the university).

In the last few weeks of semester two, Mr Graham received a complaint from a frequent user of the King's Buildings shuttle bus, stating that the reliability of the service had diminished with buses arriving up to ten minutes early in some cases and ten minutes late in others.

The complaint was passed on to Lothian Buses and it emerged that this was not the first complaint they had received with regards to timekeeping.